11 JULY 1914, Page 13

LORD SAYE AND SELE.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—Shall the most judicial of periodicals not do justice ? You and Lord Newton are making a mistake. Whether Lord Saye and Sele had a will of his own or not, he could not call himself as a witness in a case. If counsel on neither side would call him, we may be sure that he was "nobody's money." Normally, of course, counsel decide who are to be called : exceptionally, the Judge (see Phipson on Evidence, Fifth Edition, p. 480). If the Judge had hinted that he wanted this witness, he would have been called.—I