SHOULD IT BE CURTAILED?
CHANCELLOR’S VIGOROUS DENUNCIATION. OF IDLE, VULGAR SIGHT-SEERS. (Received Thursday, 7 p.m.) LONDON, April 25. The proposal to prohibit the publication of evidence and speeches in divorce suits and allow only the results to be made known was debated in the House of Lords. Lord Buckmaster said one of the great scandals of these reports was that they pillory the innocent party. To make a woman seeking her legal rights to undergo the ordeal of disclosing shameful matters before vulgar and idle sightseers, gathered not to hoar justice done, but to listen to unclean matters from the lips of a woman, was something that offended against the most elementary principles of justice. The Bishop of Durham connected the publication of the details of divorce. suits with the country's grave social situation. The Lord Chancellor (Viscount Cave) said it was difficult tor the Government, in view of the heavy programme, to introduce .legislation on the problem to effect an improvement without entrenching on the liberty of the Press. '
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Shannon News, 27 April 1923, Page 4
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170SHOULD IT BE CURTAILED? Shannon News, 27 April 1923, Page 4
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