Shaw Savill and Albion Company Limited v Skilton - [1950] NZLR 588

Evidence — Relevancy — Cross-examination — Claim by Waterside Worker for Damages for Injuries — Plaintiff cross-examined as to Earnings from Communist Party — Questions as to Past and Future Receipts of Income relevant to Issue of Damages — Duty of Counsel.

Practice — Trial — Summing-up — Isolated Expression of Judge's Personal View of Communism — Irrelevancy not amounting to Misdirection.