“Rumour and Gossip"
INTERFERING WITH JUSTICE SOLICITORS’ DIFFICULTIES Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. At the Dominion Legal Conference, when discussing the suggestion that the publication of evidence in the lower court in capital cases should be forbidden, Mr. A. T. Donnelly, Crown Solicitor, of Christchurch, said that persons accused of a spectacular crime—one that carried a news value —did not get the same fair trial as a person charged with a minor crime. That result was brought about by the activities of the newspapers. The difficulty which confronted counsel in defending an accused person was the difficulty of dissociating the rumour and gossip of the street and newspapers from the evidence which was legally admissable against accused. If the remit were agreed to., he feared that the publication of rumour and gossip would be increased, to the prejudice of the accused. There was no use taking an impracticable view of these things, and he could not quite see how the operations of the newspapers were to be restricted, without interfering with their proper liberty and sphere of action. The remit was withdrawn.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 328, 13 April 1928, Page 1
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181“Rumour and Gossip" Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 328, 13 April 1928, Page 1
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