The Racecourse Ejection Case.
[By Tkleorapii/ (/Vr /V<*« i'lti--/'.) Welj.in'.H'.n", This day. 1b the Supreme Court to-day, Mr Justice Edwards, upon a motion by Mr Jellicoe, counsel for Win, Ryan, turf commission agent, who was fined for trespass on the Feilding racecourse during tbe late races, granted an order calling upon Mr Stanford, S.M., to show ciuse why the conviction should not be gnashed: and in the alternative why a writ should not be issued prohibiting the said Magistrate from further proceeding on the following grounds t —Firstly, no oflencc was proved : secondly, that the Act complained of was committed in the exercise of a supposed right; thirdly, that Sherwill, a steward of the Feilding Jockey Club, has an interest in the conviction, and was therefore disqualified under the Justice of the Peace Act from receiving the information prefecred against Ryan : fourthly, that the Magistrate in adjudicating on the ease acted as prosecutor or adviser to the prosecution, and therefore there was a reasonable apprehension of bias on his part. The case will be argued in Banco after the long vacation.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 203, 22 December 1896, Page 3
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181The Racecourse Ejection Case. Hastings Standard, Issue 203, 22 December 1896, Page 3
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