Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1913 — NO SECRET DIVORCE TRIALS [ARTICLE]

NO SECRET DIVORCE TRIALS

Every Court In England Open to Every Subject and Must Leave Doors Open, Is Ruling. London. —An end has been put to the possibility of secret proceedings in divorce and other suits in the United Kingdom by a judgment delivered by the house of lords, sitting as the highest court of appeals. The dlyorce court had adjudged a Mrs. Scott guilty of contempt of court in circulating among her friends the report of a case heard “in camera” la which she had been accused of infidelity, but had been vindicated. The lord chancellor’s opinion, in which the other law-lords concurred, reverses the judgment for contempt of court. The lord chancellor declares: “Every court of justice in the land is open to every subject of the king and a court has no power to sit otherwise than with open doors."