STUART ROYAL COMMISSION
Libel Charge In
Adelaide
ADELAIDE, January 19.
A summons was issued by the Crown today against News. Ltd., publishers of the “Adelaide News,” and its editor-in-chief (Mr Rohan Rivett)
The summons charges that they published three seditious libels, three defamatory libels knowing them to be false and three defamatory libels The summons arises from publication of reports of proceedings at the Stuart Royal Commission last year
It is alleged in the summons that these sentences were published: “Shand quits. *you won’t give Stuart fair go 1 ” and “Mr Shand, QC. indicts Sir Meilis Napier. ‘these commissioners cannot do the job’.” The summons says the allegations concern Sir Meilis Napier Chief Justice of the South Australian Supreme Court, who was chairman of the Stuart Royal Commission, and the other members of the commission—Sir Geoffrey Reed and Mr Justice Ross, Judges of the Supreme Court.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29108, 21 January 1960, Page 14
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