DAMAGES AWARDED.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Feb. 24. Holding that libel had been proved, the Chief Justice, in his reserved judgment in the Supreme Court, awarded £75 and costs to John Joseph McGrath, barrister and solicitor, of Wellington, against the Wellington Publishing Coy. in respect of the publication of a paragraph in the Dominion of an episode which formed part of the proceedings at tho hearing of a case in the Magistrate’s Court, m which plaintiff appeared as counsel. In His Honour’s opinion, the report and headings, taken in. conjunction, were not a fair and accurate report, and w’ere, in his view, defamatory in themselves. The natural and plain effect of the words was to present plaintiff as one who in his professional conduct of the proceedings did not behave as a gentleman, His Honour pointing out that the contrary was the ease.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 73, 25 February 1932, Page 3
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