10 FEBRUARY 1933, Page 6

There is very rarely anything to be said for the

sup- pression of names in Court, except in the case of blackmail trials, and the procedure in an income-tax appeal case last week was so astonishing that I imagine, and hope, the matter will be raised in questions in the House. The Attorney-General, appearing for the Crown, said an order had been made—" I do not quite appreciate what jurisdiction there was to make it, or how it came to be made "—that the names of the Turf Commission Agents concerned should be kept secret. The Judge said the order had not been made by him, and described it as " an order by which all concerned are bound." Who is it who thus binds the Chief Law Officer and a High Court Judge, and whose name, like the bookmakers', cannot be disclosed ?