SUPPRESSION OF NAMES
CAN BE CARRIED TO EXCESS. OBSERVATIONS BY CHIEF . JUSTICE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. “This suppressing of names can be carried to excess, and when it goes beyond certain limits it is not in the public interest,” said the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) in the Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday, when counsel in domestic proceedings on appeal referred to a person concerned in the case as “Mr X.’’ His Honour said that counsel might ask the newspapers to suppress the name, but it was on the papers before the Court and he would not make an order for suppression. “Names, generally speaking, are suppressed in the public interest,” his Honour continued. “If an innocent person, for instance, is named in proceedings it would be a monstrous thing in both the interests of that person and in the interests of the public that the name should be permitted abroad and that person scandalised, but I don’t see any reason, where a person actually behaves contra bonos mores, that his name should be suppressed.” His Honour directed counsel to refer to the man by name during the proceedings.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1941, Page 7
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190SUPPRESSION OF NAMES Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1941, Page 7
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