TRIAL BY NEWSPAPER.
"A PERNICIOUS HABIT." By Cable—Press Association—Copyright London, May 25. In the. action brought by, Captain Kemp, late of the battleship London, against Ycxlcy, editor of The Fleet, for libel, Captain Kemp was awarded £3OOO damages, and a stay of execution was refused. Ycxley admitted tha.t he only investigated the men's fiaSfi and did not ask Captain Kemp's explanaljfins. He stated that Lord Fisher and Mr. MtUVi?!!»a. (former First Lord of the Admiralty) h:ld (hanked him for his services to the Navy. The Judge, in summing up, protested at the increase of the pernicious habit of trial by newspaper. Yexley's was the most ragged plea of justification he had ever seen. If Captain Kemp was a strict disciplinarian the jury must say whether he was blameworthy for the discontent on board the London,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 7, 27 May 1914, Page 5
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135TRIAL BY NEWSPAPER. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 7, 27 May 1914, Page 5
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