THE JUDGES.
CHARGE OF CONTEMPT DISMISSED.
JUDGES NOT EASILY LIBELLED
Received This Morning, 12.35 o'clock
MELBOURNE, June 7.
The High Court dismissed the case in which the editor of the Hobart Mercury was charged with contempt of Court in publishing a leader declaring that Mr Justice Higgins, President o '-■ the Federa' Arbitration Court, was a political Judge. The Chief Justice said a Judge was not so much open to libel as other persons. Contempt was to obstruct, or to interfere with the Ccurt.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10257, 8 June 1911, Page 5
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83THE JUDGES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10257, 8 June 1911, Page 5
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