Police Kept Men's Work Records
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WHEN Pattullo, Barr and Co., Ltd., Carolina Fort, Dundee, appeared, last week, in Dundee police court on charges of breaches of the drivers' hours regulations, the defending solicitor, Mr. J. Murray Wilkie, objected to the retention by the police of the drivers' records. At a hearing in January, Mr. Wilkie said that he was not in a position to plead and .would not do so until he had inspected the records.
The burgh prosecutor said that if an approach had been made to him, they would have been made available. Mr. Wilkie was entitled to have access to the records under the supervision of a police officer. At last week's resumed hearing, Mr. Wilkie said that he was still unable to plead, as the records had been procured by a search warrant and he had no access to them.
The deputy clerk of the court said that in a case brought under the Summary Jurisdiction Act there was no question of lodging records in process. They would not become productions until shown in court and spoken to by witnesses. The burgh prosecutor stated that it was incompetent to lodge productions in a criminal process; this was a procedure peculiarly applicable to a civil process. His offer to Mr. Wilkie to examine the records under police supervision, still stood.
Mr. Wilkie said that this was absurd, as he wanted to check the details with the individual drivers. The prosecuting solicitor suggested that it be minuted that the defending solicitor refused to plead and that a plea of not guilty be entered. The bailie agreed to a diet of trial and the case will be resumed on May 6-7.
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