STANCROFT CASE
CROWN’S APPEAL UPHELD. K.C. CENSURED FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT. (Recd This Day, 10.10 a.m.) GIBRALTAR, September 6. Acting Chief Justice Craithie upheld the Crown’s appeal as regards the Stancroft verdict and granted leave to appeal to the Privy Council. Mr D. N. Pritt, K.C., was censured for contempt of court, for not rising as the Judge left the bench. The Chief Justice, holding that the Supreme Court at Gibraltar had no jurisdiction, set aside a writ whereby the Crown claimed condemnation of the discharged cargo from the Stancroft, also a warrant for arrest. The Court disallowed defendants' costs but did not order delivery of the goods. The Gibraltar correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” reported on May 13 that as the result of information received from the Non-Intervention Board, the British destroyer Hyperion stopped the London steamer Stancroft on the high seas between Barcelona and Valencia and escorted her to Gibraltar, where her cargo was examined. The Stancroft was alleged to be carrying arms to Spain. Subsequently it was announced that the vessel had been cleared to suspicion, no munitions being found on board.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1938, Page 5
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