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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY '17, 1957.
UK COMMITTAL PROCEEDINGS CAPETOWN BOOMS.
Adams' Murder Trial
:
Publicity Raised
Important Legal Issue
By JOHN DUDMAN,
London, May 16.
The recent sensational trial of Dr John Bodkin Adams here has left behind it a controversy over whether reports of preliminary hearings of such cases in the local magistrates' court should be withheld from the public.
So seriously is the issue regarded that the Government has decided to hold an official inquiry into it in the near future, presided over by Lord Tucker, an eminent jurist.
Dr Adams was found not | the court should not be made in | restrictions on reporting which guilty of murdering a wealthy open court.
may be placed on them as & widow patient "with drugs, For more than two hours, the result of the Enquiry. Before he was finally acquitted. } court was cleared while Mr The Manchester Guardian, had faced months of Lawrence, the prosecution and while agreeing that carly publicity in newspapers through- the magistrales argued over the publicity may
extent To some out the world,
defer.co submission. Finally, intuence the mind of jurors, This reached
the
10
the
a peak during the mag'strates decided to neur: anid that there are circumstances the preliminary heuring of the In public all the evidence which In wh ch reporting of case before a panel of local the prosecution had to offer, proceedings
before magistrates in the town of The
prosecution alleged that magistrates could help Eastbourne, The task of his Dr Adams had also killed two accused—such ns by rallying court was not to decided on his other wealty All latest dances.
patients—Alfred friends and supporters round guilt or otherwise but to judge John Hullett, aged 71, who died him or attracting the attention whether or not the prosecution | lası year, und hia 30-year-old of witresses with evidence had made out
which wife. A case
Gertrude, whose death valuable to him zeemed strong enough to justify followed four months after- "Porhaps the strongest Con-
awards. sending the doctor for
hardly sideration-though before Judge and Jury.
applies in he present healthy state of English justice is that the right of preliminary hearing in open court is the fundamental safeguard against a high-handed Executive soek- ing to elenco
opponents", it added.
the underpins Habeas Corpus Act,"
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Headaches
Toothaches Colda
BAYER
•quickly overcome by
CAFASPIN
Accusations
These allegat ons were prominently published British newspapers.
Tucu.
the
Indictment
at the Old Bailey,
was
found Crown Reginald
It is this preliminary hearing which has caused the legal dispute, because all the allegu tions against the doctor made where Dr Adams Anally stpod by the Prosecution before the trial, only the evidence affecting
This newspaper suggested that magistrates
widely the death of Mrs Morrell were
the solution might be to advise published in newspapers.
given.
It was not until after
magistrates how to use their Moreover, arcusations were Dr Adams had been
present powers to the best effect made and published, which did not guilty" that the
rather than to change the law. wel ennerge
Sir Pain at the tri prosecutor,
The Daily Express, Uke proper at the Ola Balley Manningham-Buller, stated that various
other
newspapers, Central Criminal Court
in there was a further indictment sounded a warning against any London.
against him of murdering Mrs secrecy in law courts, because, Thic Issue
troubling Hullet. But
prosecution it said, "full publielty-the light! lawyers, politicians, press and withdrew the charge and the of day-la the ultimate safe- public L
future doctor went free. whether in
guard of the citizen in his deal- tases of the kind
newspapers The question arising from this inga with the law."China Mai should be allowed to report the is; can a jury which has in all Special,
évidence probability read the preliminary hearings in the newspapers be trusted to be completely im- partial at the trial itself?
statements
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berore preliminary magistrates'
hearings.
cases in sceret,
the
the
Sir Patrick Devlin, the Judge in the Adams case, commented upon the situation with approval and authority of the Lord Chief Justice, of Goddard.
Lord
these before
Powers originally granted in 1848 crable magistrates to clear public and press from their courts in special circumstances, But the powers are rarely used. As champions of the traditional fairness anal Impartiality English justice, magistrates and "I think would have been Judges realise that suspicions wiser in this case," St Patrick could be aroused if a regular told the jury, practice was made of hearing preliminary proceedings
the magistrates had been held in private because when you have [1
which arouses w'despread discussion It is Inevitable that reports should But the Adams case Indicated appear in the press and, as I how a legal system based on the reminded you at the beginning safeguard of public presence of this case, the proceedings could have a prejudicial effect before the upon the man in the dock quite Throughout the case, at the preliminary hearings at East- bourne, and at the Old Bailey, Dr Adams faced only one charge:
Prejudicial
were
magistrates different from the
proceedings as they emerged in this court,
"They would be read by the public consequently and by He was accused of members of tho public who killing Mrs Edith Alice Morrell might be asked to serve on the
nt her homo in Eastbourne on November 13, 1950.
But during the tnitial hear-
ings, Dr Adams' Defence
Counsel, Mr Geoffrey Lawrence,
jury.
Decision
Queen's Counsel, asked the "I hope it will not be thought, magistrates to hear the in camero, He wie anxious that I am making any
Serious
that evidence and allegations criticism of the decision of the outside the actual charge before magistrates in the sense that I
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do not feel myself it was the right one because they had a difficult decision to take and they were following what has become puti almost universal practice of holding these pro- ceedings in public.
"Nor
am I making any criticism of the general rule that, except for a good und special reason, it is best that all stages of the criminal processes ahould be conducted in open court as part of our tradition,
"But there are two points that must always be re- that membered. The rat is Parliament itself gave * discretion to magistrates and when Parliament gives it, intends it to be und unless there may be exceptional cases.
The second 19 that
these preliminary proceedings were first laid down in the Art of
Recusod.
Thailand India, Pakistan, Middle 1848 for the benent of the
TAR, ANIÓA, Great Britain," Europe,
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faman, & p.min.
Canada,
By Burtace
Tinwall, 3 p.io. Macao.
p.m. BATURDAY, MAY 18
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It would be, I think,
a very unfortunate thing if pro- roodings which were designed for the benefit of the
accused could indirectly result or may turn out to be projudicial to his
Paking, Jiang, Honkow, Kami- | interests,"
The Government Enquiry will
Malaya, North Borneo, consider and report "whether it Indonesia, Asutrala, New Zealand & | is necessary of desirable that
Ceylon, 11 .03.
Philppines, 12.1.
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any restrictiona should be placed on the publication Des reports
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Arguments
While the Magistrates' Association, representing 10,000 begun to prepare evidence, British nown-
AMAYA, PARIZAO, kraj (P. Zodia, magistrates, Parori via Rasselt), BEGIN.
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Japan VA, C. 3. Americs, papers are publishing outspoken articles estling forth the argumenta for an against the
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General Visits Sandhurst
Major General Emitio Alaman. Sparish Director of Milliary Trajzlog, is în Br|- tain as a guts of the War Oillon, and he is pictured here paying a visit to the Royal Military Academy at Band- hurst,
for training-school British Army Officers. General Alaman is plotured with the college's Command- ant R. W. Erquhart, ........ Ex- press Photo,
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
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WHY ?
SAUD FOR JORDAN
OVER SUEZ CANAL CLOSURE
By HAIG NICHOLSON
Capetown, May 16,
Experts estimate that the closing of the Suez Canal brought this sunny port overlooked by Table Mountain about £1,000,000 in extra revenue since the beginning of last November.
Because of the uncertain situation in the to Middle East, the experts expect the boom continue for some weeks at least, though on a reduced scale.
Nearly 1,300 diverted ships
"Moot
of the vessels placed
Bald one, ship
have called here already since orders for fresh Bruit, vegetables
the 100-mic waterway between | and
Port Bald and Buzz was put out | chandler.
of action, and several ore sull calling each day.
Good Season
"We do not think it likely that Table Bay harbour will be back
"They struck a good season and to normal until the end of May, supplies wore plentiful. Most of and then only it no new suaza Liese fresh supplies were bought arise in the Canal position," corect drom farmers so that there shipping agent declared.
is is esumatext was half of the £1,000,000 which Has Come to this city through intervailed use
has hardly boon any effect on
no local market,”
Shipping agents in many CASES
of the round-the-Cupe route based to double their staffs.
into the gono
ils of holcia, stops, emas, restaurants and cales.
Port Charges
About £200,000 has been paid
in port charges, including TUMS,
berthing fees and water supplies,
"Meoling ships and attending 20 their needs has meant that a MOS routine work lot of our |lugged behind,” said one ship-
Magunt, "and it will take a long time to catch up again.
Chaplain Busy
"The barbour sloft
I
and the
while ship chatxilers have had shipping community have pulled DA added come of £160,000 together splendidly to meet the
of stores and
for the supply
rust. The results have been excöilent, and there has boop a equipment.
of complimentary ond Engineering Arms have had food about £50,000 of extra repair appreciative letters from overseas anipowners whose vessels have work.
passed through the port." All this has resulted in a
Some shipping firms handiet minor wave of prosperity for four times the normal mumber of Capetown,
£1,000,000
slace much of the vessels,
extra shipping
revenue has percolated through
All this extra activity in the
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the city through extra spending harbour has meant a particularly have been working overtime by wage and salary earners who busy time, too, for the Reverend K. itees, chaplain of the Milesion to Seamon, Bagdad, May 10, Pilots, assistant port captains,
With two lay helpers, King Saud of Saudi Arabia and senior officials in the harbour today accepted the invitation had their leave cancelled during visited £25 ships in port diring
extended to recently
him by the peak period of the slipping March this year, and 6,121 pea- King Hussein of Jordan to visit rush while tug, berthing and men attended cinema shows and other staffs willingly helped to dances at the mission. By com- Last year. in March round-the-clock- { parisem, This was stated by Haza Al-maintain
248 ships were visited and 3,737 Majail, former Jordan Premier service. Staffa and plosc
ship seamon" attended entertainmenta friend of
employed by King Hussein, after being received by chandler have not had a day off at the mission. China Mali King Saud-Reuter
for months.
Special,
Amman.
LOOK--
THE CITY'S
RISING
AGAIN! HOW DID WE GET HERE?
A
By Lee Falk and Phil Davla
THROUGH THE TIME FOS-MADE
BY A TIME MACHINE-HMM. WONDER WHAT
HAPPENED...
THE CITY OF 62000 A.D.
IS IN PANICT
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