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High Court Wellington
2, 3, 4, 5 June; 2, 3, 6, 7, 23 July 1959
Hutchison A.C.J.
2, 3, 4, 5 June; 2, 3, 6, 7, 23 July 1959
Hutchison A.C.J.
Defamation — Privilege — Newspaper Article — Privilege not Defence without Proof of Duty to Public to Publish Defamatory Matter.
Defamation — Trial — General Verdict — Duty of Judge not to require or direct Jury, even if Libel proved, to give Verdict for Plaintiff — Defamation Act 1954, s. 22.
Practice — New Trial — Improper Rejection of Evidence — Before New Trial is Sought, Court should have Definite Information as to what Rejected Evidence would have been — Code of Civil Procedure, R. 277.