Hain case costs hearing due today

Workers Press no. 850, 24 August 1972 · scan page 11

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Mrg iLar AN APPLICATION for the costs of the private prosecution against Peter Hain, chairman of the Young Liberals, to be paid out of public funds will be heard by Judge Gillis at the Old Bailey today.

It is being made by Francis Bennion, the 48-year-old barrister who brought the prosecution.

Hain (22), was fined £200 by the judge on Monday after a jury found him guilty of conspiring to hinder and disrupt the Davis Cup tennis match between Britain and South Africa in 1969.

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A spokesman for Bennion's solicitors said in London yesterday: 'It would be quite improper for me to say what the figure of costs is.' The amount has been estimated, however, at about £20,000.

Bennion, director of Freedom Under the Law Ltd, is closely connected with the right-wing Monday Club.

• For a profile of the Monday Club, see Saturday's Workers Press.