CONTEMPT OF COURT.
THE CASE OF MR GINNELL. Received March 12, 8.30 a.m. LONDON, March 11. At the instance of the Nationalists, who sympathise with Mr Ginnell, member for Westmeath, now undergoing imprisonment for contempt of court, the House of Commons, by a majority of 115, adopted a motion to •the effect that jurisdiction in matters of contempt of court is arbitrary, and requires limiting. The Chief Secretary for Ireland, the Right Hon. A. Birrell, declared that the law of contempt was an excrescence, and its amendment was urgently required.
Mr Ginnell, leader of the cattle•driving campaign, is in Kilrnainham gaol, undergoing a sentence of six months' imprisonment for contempt of court in connection with a fiery oration made by him ; at Kilskeer, County Meath. He was committed .by 1 the Land Court Judges, sitting Tin Dublin, Judge Koss remarking: " —"ln the present case the defend*ant has dared to turn the swollen tide of lawlessness and violence upon an estate that is under the ' -court's immediate protection."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9047, 13 March 1908, Page 5
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167CONTEMPT OF COURT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9047, 13 March 1908, Page 5
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