LAWS OF LIBEL
AMENDMENT SOUGHT BY NEWSPAPERS RESOLUTIONS BY SOUTH AFRICAN CONFERENCE Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. JOHANNESBURG, February 26. (Received February 27, at 1.35 p.m.) The Press Conference adopted a resolution recognising the duty of newspapers in the Empire in respect to the rights of individuals and corporate bodies, but expressing the opinion that the laws of libel bore harshly upon newspapers in certain parts of the Empire, and that efforts be made towards amendment of the laws throughout the Empire on the lines of the Select Committee’s report on the Newspaper Libel Bill in 1931, which was still awaiting passage by the Union Parliament of Africa.
The conference further urged on newspaper proprietors in the Empire the need of co-operation to secure the necessary amendments to the libel law, and called on the Empire Press Unjon to appoint a standing committee to collate information on this matter from overseas sections with a view to possible co-ordination of legal practice throughout the Empire.
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Evening Star, Issue 21965, 27 February 1935, Page 12
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163LAWS OF LIBEL Evening Star, Issue 21965, 27 February 1935, Page 12
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