TRADE UNIONS AND LIBEL ACTIONS.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13384, 6 April 1912, Page 5

TRADE UNIONS AND LIBEL ACTIONS.

AN ENGLISH DECISION

IMMUNITY FROM SUITS

(Received April 6, 2.10 a.m.)

London, April 5.

Vachor r.nd Sons sued the London Society of Compositors for libel, but the Court of Appeal decided that under tho Trades Disputes Act a trade union was immune. Mr Justice Farwell, in a dissenting decision remarked that the libel was an absolute lie, and peculiarly of-

fensive.^

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