CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4] — Page 546

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in the witness box. I drew him back to the matter when he taun xom called and he then said " I was playing for time and the plan appeared

to be working successfully until these two men came up na Torged through the crowd. Thoir shouts of encouragon nt took the crowd at

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crowd at mee wo should not hold than ho was behind the other. I

seized the front man I said "Hore Pitt, talin this mo

ty intention in co doing was to pacify the riot, not to deal with

the man personally." That is Ir. King's ovideo on this oint.

If you accept this as a correct statonont of what happmod vel vill

find also that no claim of right to vec Coree on this weasing

can be based on the exercise of any statutory power of arront.

het was dono vas done to control the crowd and not to bring any

person to justice. We then come to the second ground on which

the claim of right to use force has boon fonded. It is the right

possensed by every citizon to disperse by force a orod which is

guilty of the common law offence of "unlawful esgombly". Phio is

a common law right possessed by us all and is not peculiar to polico

officers. In the common law the term "plawful essembly" has a very

spacial meaning. liany assemblys which we might expect to be

classed as 'unlawful' are outsido the definition. Professor Vice7,

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in his book "Law And Constitution", describos tho ter hmlarful

assembly" as a torm of art, For instanco, supposing to crowd ith knowledge of tholegal prohibition met to walk over the fontier

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bo an unlawful assembly, although assemblod to carry out an unlawful

purpose. No peaceable assembly, so long as it romains peaceablo,

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