The suit against Lord Tavistoek last week provided All interesting
commentary on recent legislation restricting records of Divorce Court proceedings. Evidence, it may be recalled, cannot now be reported, but the Judge's summing-up can. In this case the ground Mr. Justice. Bucknill had necessarily to cover was so extensive, and so many intimate details were inevitably involved, that that section of the Press which used to specialise in full reports came for a moment into its own again. To that extent the purpose of the recent law may seem to have been .frustrated. • But actually, in this case as in many. others, reporting of the evidence would obviously have been open to grave objection. As summarised and pant-. phrased by the learned Judge, witnesses' statements were disinfected without loss of force or purport. The Tavistock action provides no case against the Judicial. Proceedings (Regulation of Reports) Act.
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