LAWYER AWARDED DAMAGES FOR LIBEL.
REFLECTION ON PROFESSIONAL DEMEANOUR.
(By Telegraph—Press Association 1 WELLINGTON, Wednesday. n, - m P g T h ?? libel had been the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) in reserved judgment delivered in the Supreme Court, awarded £75 and costs to John Joseph McGrath, barris*®r sotetor < of Wellington, against the Wellington Publishing Company in respect of the publication of a paragraph in the Dominion, of an episode which had formed part of the proceedat the hearing of a case in the ■Magistrate’s Court against a publican for whom plaintiff had appeared as counsel.
In His Honour’s opinion the report and the headings, taken in conjunction, were not a fair and accurate report, and were, in his view, defamatory in themselves. The natural and plain effect of the words was to present the plaintiff as one who, in, his professional conduct of proceedings, did not behave as a gentleman, His Honour pointing out that the contrary was the ease.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 February 1932, Page 4
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