26 APRIL 1957, Page 7

LAST WEEK in , two paragraphs on the preliminary proceedings of

the Adams case I quoted extracts from what prosecuting counsel had said, first When Mr. Lawrence, QC, applied to make an application in private and secondly when Mr. Lawrence applied to have the part of the prosecu- tion's opening speech relating to the deaths of the Hulletts heard in private. And I said that Mr. Stevenson's remarks amounted to opposition to the defence's requests. The words I quoted last week were all said in open court. I have now seen what was said at the third stage of the argument in camera. These later exchanges do not in my judgement affect the matter, but it is right that I should quote them so that everybody can form his own opinion, though it would require a Dickens to do them justice.