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A CATUOLIC.LORD COLERIDOE ON INDIOT-MENT8 FOR LIBEL.At the Bor lea Km lit* ou February 11, the Lord Chief Justice madu some important remarks «n the question of indict meat for libel in charging ‘bo grand jury. Mr. Chartley, iorderly coroner fur South lluiU, had indicted a Mr. W. Devonll for libwl, arising *u» 4 a lnUrr which appeared iu the It'iixlmir and Eton EUf/rtu on the subject of nluring the nanlt;u of Slough. Mr. Obaraley had now left Slough, and hia Lordship remarked that ho di*char.vd a (isriiiig ahot at Slough iu tho shape «*f a larv** handbill, in which he loll foul of a gentleman named tiiliuiau. TJ.ia drew from Mr. Duvuriil I ho lottor complained of. Lord 0'iloridgo aad hu waa bound to tell the jury that (ho question of libel had been very carefully ooiiaidored *d late, aiul ho did not believe there waa a Judyo on the bench who viu not «*f the tpinion—he himoulf held it very atiungly—that the pnuticv of indicting for libel had grown to a very leiachovious client* If they looked back to the old la* hooka, when there waa not particular favour for the liberties of tlm prcaa, and when many a thing now pavaed over woidd have been made the subject of ex ultimo rnd Oliver inforuiatioii. I hey would lind that all th» grval million lien laid it down strongly, and, a* lie believed, with good aouud reason, that, while everyone might bring an action (or libel, rhcrv ought to be aouiething of a public nature about it to justify the interfering of the Crown aa i.'presenting the public by pmceediiiM by indictment. The Clown waa the proarcuior hi a case of indictment, and therefore an indictment for libel ought to be some thing which interested the Crown, something which concerned tho general iniureata of the public, and likely to crento a breach of the pence If a libel waa repeated, and waa infamous and likely to causo tle effect ho had indicatod, tho person should be indicted ; but where there waa nothing of the sort, when it waa clearly an individual auuabble between two persona, he trusted they would agrco with him that, in hia judgment, it waa wdl-aottled law that it ought not to be and waa not iu point of law a proper subject of indictment. The parson libelled had hia remedy bv bring* mg an action. Blackstoue had aaid a jury ought not to find a bill, nor ought one to be presented where there waa no nut ior of a public nature involved. The grand jury threw out the bill.
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Boorowa Burrowa News
Boorowa, New South Wales, AU
Fri, Apr 12, 1889
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