LAW OF CONTEMPT
Summarised Court Reports NOT NECESSARILY UNFAIR | SYDNEY, June 22. The Chief Justiee, Sir Frederick Jordan, t'o-day in a full Court judgment de'fined Ihe liability of hewspapers whieh publish summarised versions of Court j proceedings leading to contempt of I Court. He said that, providing the I summaries are fair and aecurate, the jnewspapers enjoy the same protection Ifrom contempt of Court as do verbatim ' reports. "As a geiieral Tule the Courts can- • not accommodate all who desire to hear the proceedings in certain cases. Consequently the public have to depend on "the newspapers for their reports, and so long as the published account is fair' and aecurate, in good faith and without malice, nobody can complain. "I hold further that a summary cannot be regarded as unfair by reason only of the fact that it failea to draw attention to a feature wfiiCBL no prominence was given before the Magistrate in the Lower Court." The judgment arose out of an aetion against the Daily Telegraph by Rich-> ard Terrill, who complained that a published summary of Court proceedings omitted to mention features favourable to him.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 134, 23 June 1937, Page 13
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188LAW OF CONTEMPT Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 134, 23 June 1937, Page 13
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