THE “SYDNEY HERALD” LIBEL CASE.
/ CAPTAIN STRACHAN AWARDED £IOOO. United Press Association —Copyright SYDNEY, March 24. The jury awarded Caiitain Strachan £IOOO damages against the “Sydney Morning Herald.” The Chief Justice, in summing up, said that it ’did not matter how fair a newspaper was in opening its columns to two disputants in the publication of their versions side by side. Fairness did not shield a newspaper from an action at law should defamatory statements be contained in what was published. A Court of law was the only tribunal given the privilege of making statements of a serious nature for and against.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2769, 26 March 1910, Page 5
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102THE “SYDNEY HERALD” LIBEL CASE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2769, 26 March 1910, Page 5
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