PROHIBITION OF EVIDENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1931, Page 5

PROHIBITION OF EVIDENCE

RULING OF CHIEF JUSTICE. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association) WELLINGTON - , August 5. Before evidence was called in a di vorce suit set down for hearing before a jury, in which Tom Asher is seeking the annulment of his marriage with Maata Asher, on the ground of alleged adultery, the Chief Justice said that from particulars . supplied, the case came within Section oo of tlm Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act. and made an order forbidding publication'of .any report or account of the evidence" in the ease, and said the order included tbe prohibition of the publication of any photograph or sketch of the parties or witnesses. Mention, however, could be made that the case was being heard, and the names o. parties could also be published. It- well might be known, -continued His Honour, that no newspaper had the right to publish a photograph or sketch of any person, he lie a litigant or witness who had come to the Com t on business in coiienction with the administration of justice. with or without the consent of the persons photographed. It might amount to contempt of court. 1 express no opinion upon the matter, said His Honour because T prefer to reserve my opinion until the matter comes before the Court in proper form, as some (lay it seems it must do.