POLICE PRIVILEGE.
The case heard -in the ■ Supreme: Court in Masterton- yesterday';■: was, according'to" ; the -Chief Justipe, „the first that had .coine before the Courts infNew Zealand, in- which an made, to compel the.vpolice' to produce a private document *%bich was: alleged": W • contain^-slanderoiis
istatemeifts: against:; anThe~iCrown plea tfiat: such belong .to' the State, and are . consequently privileged. English authorities were cited: in support of this contention, and, although there has been no New Zealand decision oh the point, His Honor the Chief Justice had ho, hesitation in written .information conveyed to the police is privileged. ...
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10199, 30 March 1911, Page 4
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96POLICE PRIVILEGE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10199, 30 March 1911, Page 4
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