A LIBEL CASE
AND AN IMPORTANT DECISION. TRADE UNIONS NOT PUNISHABLE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, April 5. Received April 6, 2.10 a.m. In the case in which Vacher and Sons sued the London Society of Compositors for libel, the Court of Appeal decided that under the Trade Disputes Act, a trade union was Immune. Mr Justice Farewell, in dissenting from the decision come to by the other judges, remarked that libel must be proved to be an absolute He and must be peculiarly offensive.
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Southland Times, Issue 17010, 6 April 1912, Page 6
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84A LIBEL CASE Southland Times, Issue 17010, 6 April 1912, Page 6
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