WATSON V. DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.")
SIR,—This was not a Trial at Bar. A Trial at Bar is of a cause or prisoner before the Court itself instead of at nisi prius and is confined to cases of great importance, and it is entirely discretionary with the Court to grant it unless the Crown be interested (see Dixon v. Farrar, Secretary of Board of Trade (1886), 18 Q.B.D. 43—C.A.), when the Attorney-General may de- mand it as of right. See also Crown Office rules of 1906. gee also R. v. Tichborne; A.-G. v. Bradlaugh, 14 Q.B.D. 667; R. r. Jameson, 1896, 2 Q.B. 425 ; and R. v. Lynch, 1903, 1 K.B. 444. The last three cases cited and Dixon v. Farrar are the only Trials at Bar since the Tichborne case. Trials at Bar can only be held at the Royal Courts of Justice.--I am, Sir, &c.,
60 Coleman Street, London, B.C. 2. E. T. HARGRAVES.
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