Contempt of court
Sir: One is naturally delighted when the SPECTATOR prints one's letter, and pleased to see a reply the following week. Pleasure turns to dismay when one realises that the respondent has missed the point.
If William Phillips (Letters, 15 December) had taken the trouble to read ,my letter he would have seen that my question (Letters, 8 December) was not about the public sitting in court but about-the public having deputed the press to do so for them.
The words quoted were from R. A. Cline's piece about contempt of court (24 November). He wrote about the general public's 'need and greed' to know what is happening in the courts. 'They have the right,' he wrote, 'to go and sit in the courts, if they, have the leisure, and, because they have not, they depute the press to do this for them.'
The question is still unanswered—where, when and how did the public so depute the press?
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