LAW OF LIBEL
PRIVATE MEMBER’S BILL IN COMMONS. GOVERNMENT ADMITS NEED OF RECONSIDERATION. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 4. In the House of Commons yesterday at the end of a debate on a private member’s Bill amending the law of libel to prevent fraudulent proceedings against newspapers and authors, the Attorney-General, Sir Donald Bradley Somervell, said the Bill related to a branch of law which was surrounded by a mass of conventions, which, by common consent, were not altogether satisfactory and required reconsideration.
The Government had agreed that the Lord Chancellor should set up a committee to consider the matter from a more fundamental, general point of view than was represented in the Bill. On this assurance the Bill was withdrawn.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 February 1939, Page 5
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121LAW OF LIBEL Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 February 1939, Page 5
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