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PART III.
REPORTS OF JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS.
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Restrictions on publication of reports of judicial proceedings.
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14.—(1) It shall not be lawful to print or publish or cause or procure to be printed or published in relation to any judicial proceedings—
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(a) any indecent matter the publication of which would be calculated to injure public morals, or
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(b) any indecent medical, surgical or physiological details the publication of which would be calculated to injure public morals.
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(2) It shall not be lawful to print or publish or cause or procure to be printed or published any report, statement, commentary or other matter of or in relation to any judicial proceedings for divorce, nullity of marriage, judicial separation, or restitution of conjugal rights save and except all or any of the following particulars of such proceedings, so far as the same can be printed and published without contravening any other sub-section of this section, that is to say:—
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(a) the names, addresses, and occupations of the parties and witnesses,
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(b) the court in which and the Judge before whom the proceedings were tried and the names of the solicitors and counsel professionally engaged in the proceedings,
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(c) a concise statement of the charges, defences, and counter-charges in support of which evidence was given,
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(d) particulars of any point of law raised and discussed in the proceedings and the decision of the court thereon,
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(e) the summing-up of the Judge and the findings of the jury or the decision of the court and the observations of the Judge when pronouncing his decision.
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(3) Nothing in this section shall apply—
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(a) to the printing of any pleading, transcript of evidence, or other document for use in connection with any judicial proceedings or the communication thereof to persons concerned in the proceedings, or
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(b) to the printing and publishing of any order, notice, or report in pursuance of the directions of the court, or
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(c) to the printing or publishing of any matter in any separate volume or part of any bona fide series of law reports which does not form part of any other publication and consists solely of reports of proceedings in courts of law, or in any publication of a technical character bona fide intended for circulation among members of the legal profession or medical profession.
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