LIBEL DAMAGES
£L>0 ; 000 GRANTED
(United Press Association—By Electric
Telegraph—Copyright)
LONDON.: November 9,
The King’s Bench jury, awarded Level- Bros. £20,000 damages. for libel - ftg'sinSt William, Af. jftneale, and Lfeorge iiarvey Bagnall. Sir Patrick . liastipgs said' the substance of the libel was an. allegation that Lever Bros, and the directors had teen a colossal fraud. Hastings stigmatised the statements 'as blackmail.
' Justice Branson granted an injunction, restraining the defendants from publishing similar libels, and warned them that, disobedience Would result in imprisonment for contempt/
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19321110.2.46
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1932, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
84LIBEL DAMAGES Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1932, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in