CONTEMPT OF COURT
("Post" Special Commissioner) .
ACCUS'ED PERSONS PHOTOGRAPHS. PUBLICATiON PROHIBITED.
WELLINGTON, Friday. ■ special impoitant point concern,i "re publication of photographs in ii .. - apers was raised in the Legisk ::*. ••* Council to-day when Sir Heatc '1 h:;*odes asked the Attorney Gener-:',, chp Hon. Sir Thomas Sidey, svheOher his attention had been drawn to the publication in newspapers of photographs of persons aceused of/ serioujs crimes and whether he corf.sidereJd such publication to be in the ntere^ts of justice. Sir Thomas Si,4ey replied-,that the publication of photographs 0±" aceused 'persons penfidng or during qriminal proceedings V^as , in most cases contempt of coult, as being* calcalated to interferh' with the due adRiinistration oL^' justice by ; prejudicMg aceused ^fnd embarrassing the proseeutionV | The sa:Tie was tr;^e of the publication of d?tails of^ the history of ac- • cused or ipcidep.ts of a crime. calcu- | lated-to prejud.Vce aceused or the pro- , secution. Warningrf of such danger had already been given by the Chief Justice recerjjtly. Some newspapers had j published photographs of persons accused oi serious crimes and he had j communicatfcd with them, bnt as they ! undcvtook to see that the offence was not repeated, he did not thinlc it nec-e-sst;:*y to press the matter further.
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Rotorua Morning Post, 31 August 1931, Page 3
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