SEQUEL TO LIBEL SUIT
PLAINTIFF REFUSED COSTS. SYDNEY, Dec. 19. Mr. Justice Haise Rogers refused plaintiff, Sir Hugh Denison, costs in his libel suit against Truth. A stay of proceedings was refused, the Judge adding that although the jury’s verdict for one farthing damages was not contemptuous, it appeared to impeach * plaintiff’s judgment in bringing the action. Therefore he would not grant a certificate of costs. A libel suit brought by Sir Hugh Denison, chairman of Associated Newspapers, Ltd., against Truth and The Sportsman, Ltd., to recover £lO,OOO damages, concluded last week after a long hearing. The jury returned a verdict in favour of plaintiff, assessing the damages at one farthing. The question of costs was held over. Plaintiff based his action on an article in Truth which, it was alleged, by innuendo charged him with abusing his position as chairman of the Royal Empire Society, also alleging that ho was responsible for the publication of a serie.? of articles in the Sun and Daily Telegraph calculated to war in the Empire. Plaintiff further contended that Truth had inferred that he had used these two papers for mercenary and dishonest purposes.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 301, 21 December 1933, Page 7
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