ESTABLISHED PRINCIPLES IMPUGNED
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DUNEDIN, June 1(3." Lcgaj cojnment was strong tliis morning on the latost Land Haies Reguiaoion which provide for a person who has become a partv to a black market property transaction, to welsh on the liargain uot only with impunity but under the- Jaw'jj? lu'O-teetion. • •-3}Msi-hu-imgnes two well established legal principles, conunonted a solicitor. In | the first plaee the law should not come ! to the aid of a wrongdoer and, secomily, the reguiations require persons to answer questions which inav iueriininate them.' It' would be intcresting to know whether any reference was uiade ! to the Law Society before Oazetting j the reguiations. Statutory exeniptions had been made to this latter principie but a disturbiug -feature of this latesl was th.al it hau not been made Dy | J'ai'liament assembled. Another solicitor commenled: "Depriving witnesscs oi the right to claini priyilege as in thuse reguiations, is a traiisgressiou of a very old principie of law of evidence. '
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Chronicle (Levin), 17 June 1946, Page 2
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