LAW OF LIBEL
COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY. (UlliriSß OFFK-JLAL WIKELKt-S. 1 RUGBY. February I. In the House of Commons yesterday at the end of the debate on a private member's bill amending the law of libel to prevent, fraudulent proceedings against newspapers and authors . the. Attorney-General said that, the bill related to a branch of the. law which was surrounded by a mass ot conventions, which by common. consent were not altogether satis fa ctor j- and required consideration.
Ho said that 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from a. more fundamental general point of view than was represented in the bill, and on this assurance the bill was withdrawn.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 February 1939, Page 3
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