LABOUR APPEAL FAILS
LIBEL DAMAGES TO STAND IN N.S.W. ACTIONUNION PRESIDENT’S JUDGMENT SYDNEY, Friday. Th& appeal by certain Labour Party officials against the judgment for £4,500 damages awarded to John Bailey for libel on December 5, 1929, was dismissed today by the Full Court. The plaintiff in this action, John Bailey, president df the Australian Workers’ Union, claimed £5,000 damages respectively from A. C Willis, a member of the Legislative Council: George Smith. J. O’Reilly, J. Ilowie, and Dan Rees, former members of the Australian Labour Party executive. The plaintiff alleged that defendants had, as executive officers, prepared and read a defamatory report before the Labour Party Conference in 1922, describing Bailey as a political leper, and impugning his conduct at an election of officers about that time. The jury found in favour of Bailey, and awarded damages as follows: Against Willis, £2,750: against Ilowie. Smith, and Rees, £500; against O’Reilly, £250.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 922, 15 March 1930, Page 10
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152LABOUR APPEAL FAILS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 922, 15 March 1930, Page 10
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