21 MARCH 1925, Page 3

There is no need to remind our readers of the

succession of extremely disagreeable trials which have occurred recently, and arc still going on in the Law Courts, for the popular newspapers do not -let us forget them. The atinosphere of prurient curiosity with which these trials are surrounded, owing to the elaborate -reporting of them and the working up of unimportant but Salacious details, is humiliating. Punch this Week has an excellent and most pertinent cartoon on the subject. The Law Courts are represented as providing all the attractions of the theatre ; queues -arc waiting outside for the doors to open. and -a strong point is made of the fact that no entertain- ment tax is charged, that the scats arc free, and that there is no censorship. What is to be done ?

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