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lever was lutly ut of bu*»h viewthatMaxim, proudly nays Captain Bird.THE LATE LORD OOLRRIDOE ON INDICTMENTS FOR LIBEL.hree •uce was und the ,000 it of don-lit on ut • llow Bird'ben noe, loin-had rood uva iing our ipea tire, we lino ighi ind* f inTil* reprinting1 of the following extract may Ini of some information to the Attorney-General of the day, who is ex -officio the Grand Jury :—At the Borks Assizes, the Lord Chief Justice made some important remarks on tho question of indictment for libol in charging tin- grand jury.Mr. Charslry, formerly coroner for South Bucks, had indicted a Mr. W. Deverill for libel, ariaing out of a letter sc which appeared in the WimUor ami if1 Eton Eeprtum on the subject of altering the naiue of Slough. Mr. Charsley had now left Slough, and his Lordship u remarked that lie discharged a parting p|shot at Slough in tho shape of a large giof • fahandbill, in which he fell foulKntleman named Kl liman. This drew j »m Mr. Deverill the letter com-plained of. Lord Coleridge said he *u was bound to tell the jury that tho j,,Juration of libel had been very care- n ully considered of late, and he did i a not believe there was a Judge on tho sf bench w ho was not of the opinion—he br himself held it very strongly—that the • practice of indicting for libel had ylt;frown to a very mitchcvious extent, f they looked back to the old law books, when there was not particular favour for the liberties of the press,k and when many a thing now pOMOdf over would have been made the subject IP of ex-ofieio nnd ocher information^ they would find tltat all the great ^ authorities laid it down atrougly, and,1 as he believed, with good sound reason,; that, while everyone might bring auoks,Uda rent oin- |franj. t j action for libel, there ought to l»* j something of a public nature about it ! to justify the interfering of the Crown 'j * as representing the public by proceed-ing by indictment. The Crown was Ibe t*' Pro*cutor 11 ciue °* indictment,1 and therefore an indictment for libel ought to be something which interested I the Crown, something which concerned tlie general interests of tlie public, and _ „ likely to create a breach of tlie If a libel was repeated, atMiTo1*sd.t peace. d wasfroa*.•• “ ■ *«»m was infj infamous and likely to cause the effect I intjjjj he had indicated, the person should U j I indicted ; but where there was nothing °*' , of the sort, when it waa clearly an * individual squabiile between two , persona, lie trusted they would agreer*B with him that, in his judgement, it ^ ftuwin»er-tliewaa well-settled Uw that it ought not to be and waa not in poiut of law atoha*antproper subject of indiotuient. The ;1* knd Pr'r*°° Bbelled had bb remedy by mil brin**n8 Blackstone hadlrr said a jury ought not to Had a bill, northe oa?,,t onc 10 ** presented where there 1 sji was no matter of a public nature 1 «ru involved. The grand jury threw out_ ften.red ••Yes. sir, I know one woman who
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Boorowa Burrowa News
Boorowa, New South Wales, AU
Fri, Jul 16, 1897
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