LIBEL LAW IN U.K.
Journalist’s View Given
(N.Z.P. A. -Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, June 29
Every earnest journalist feels himself fettered by the present law of libel, says Raoul Colinvaux, head of “The Times” legal department, in a book published last Thursday. The book is called “Inside Journalism,” edited by Rodney Bennett
“The real trouble,” he writes, “is that newspapers cannot do their job and print the truth for the benefit of the nation under the present law of libel.” The fundamental defect was that, although the law protected fair comment on matters of public interest, it did not readily allow fair presentation of the facts if innuendos or implications could be drawn which might be defamatory or untrue of the individual.
Mr Colinvaux’s article is one of many by top-line British journalists in a book which sets out to explain the working of the press to laymen.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31409, 30 June 1967, Page 12
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