The Poison of Perjury Commenting on the need for punishing perjury, Mr Justice Callan, speaking in the Auckland Supreme Court, said it was in the interests of justice that witnesses in Court should tell the truth. The practice had begun in an earlier age of witnesses being required to take the Bible in their hand and swear by God they would tell the truth. It probably meant more then than it did today, but the practice continued. There were two kinds of perjury. One was when a witness in Court was faced with some unexpected position and gave way to the temptation to give false evidence. The other was when a witness deliberately gave false testimony. That was the worst variety, and one which poisoned justice at the fount.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 58, 4 December 1946, Page 2
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