CHILDREN’S COURT
OBJECTION TO PUBLICATION OF EVIDENCE RIGHTS OF THE PUBLIC Special to THE SUN WELLINGTON, Today. Objection to the publication of the evidence heard in Children’s Courts in any of its details is taken by a leading psychologist. Assailing the statement that the public has a right to know what goes on in the courts, he points out that the publication of proceedings in courts is regarded as part of the punishment of the offender. The whole object of the Children’s Courts was to remove the child from the circumstances surrounding the criminal court. That being so, the public has no right to know anything of what goes on there. The less publicity and the more sympathy that were given the child the better. Even the suppression of the child’s name did not justify publication of the details of his case, in the view of this psychologist.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1030, 22 July 1930, Page 16
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148CHILDREN’S COURT Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1030, 22 July 1930, Page 16
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