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IE EI NAMIE AES eh A , but something was intcturatey but did nodmerd iy hikd BYArd” Ueno atethey reat affect the reputation of the plaingiff, he koew his’ drdadful iraflic. in which the could not recover anything, He conceded - ft plaintiff was engaged, selling his friends. - that the Act itself did noi apply because the The plaintif had come before the jury and proceedings had been commenced before it said that he bad taken money for selling came into operation. : secrets of his friends in London to Pragus Mir. O'SULiivan said thal at common law and now he said he wanted them to give a plaintifl was entitled to recover damages | him damages for Jibet. He (counsel) hoped assessed by a jury having regard to the con- that by their verdict ihe jury would express duct of the defendants. Section 3 had |! their contempt ai his behaviour and their effected a change in the law, and was not ' contempt far actions of this sort, in subsiance che law at the time when the . Mx. O'SULLIVAN, making his final addyess ‘ proceedings were started. . fo the jury, said thar in’ Hobbs ¥. Tinting & Co, Lid. (1929) 2 K.B. 1), Lord Justice Greer (at p, 46) had said that aman did not lose his right to damagts because his character was not free from reproach, and if newspapers for their Brmoscs falsely alleged that he had y of crimes’ and misconduct the juny _ i MR. SaLmon, addressing the jurg, asked | how any man could have the temerity. bOm come into Couri in the circumstances o ies lease and ask a British jury to give etm} hehey. HM what ihe deicndanis had gid “flateue the plainiif was true he was hie ‘ enutied to anything, Traih was a compias aéfence, The defendants had said thaurbrey| waa a spy and, on what he -had hinge, ahafacier ought net io have his character : a| Mie out to be blacker than the proved fj weeranied. RD) Fag, |’ NO LONGER IN FRANCE © A sdReferring to the alleged libel, he ‘counkaly Said in he ordinary sense of the wold wan FHTIo Say in France thal he was a spy ? | Was no longer in France when they sale ruth of that?) From 1945 until ceriapy! 1950 he had been a paid secret agent of fees régime in Prague, where from [943 the | | Wists held the dominant positions ine ernment, and it was not safe fonre3 Cecnoslovakian who was an st na tie was there the slightest doube o 1% a ee ye eee, menist to return. The plaintiff took md@ey? mignt well consider that even a man of 4 ‘with missing diplomats 7" It was gAid | nets holds spy Strauss." © Third man by itn the regime in Prague for nd ro theeCzechoslovakians in London and repipfty | iby? what they were doing. He had yi i the dcfence that because there wak a} at wary it was all right. If the law colerated e tat he did not know of anybody -execk s Af th ef By tikbuse of what he had reported, bnt, Sel & thing all, our situations as citigens : hw could amone know what hepplieh | ype se in per. The papers could ‘put “Os course no complaint was riade? ¢ hasis of his fcounsel’s) whole ateu- because NO one in London knew ahap tne ment was that this article mcant that athe | Alsgniift was carrying on that disgusti Biaiptil was probably associated, or altgr- teeth. AM the lime he was pretendigg: Ratwcly was in fact associating. with the be Anti-Communistic. Could they thing of) misting ‘diplomatk. He sugeested that "the anything baser than thal, or of gréaiee woRis meant what the plainiif said. de treachery 7 Referring to the alieged libel, counsel et | and that there -were two ar ihree mitg> Statemenis of fac’. He asked for a verdict in favour of the plaintiff for such temperate and modesrfamages as ‘Me jury thought fit. _His Loansuip said that he would begin his summing-up in the moming. oe bétind the iron curtain, 7 rina | eae ne iIntO an inferrogative form, tay that if was suggesicd that the sting in it was thar the plaintiff was a spy. The jury might think that that had been proved beyond a peradventure, It was fantastic, | meant; that that meaning was defamalaeyy “was it not, that this man should come here | (anu ask for daniiges for hibel. Couiiset ihe hearing was adjourned, | sugecsicd that read fairly the article did not Solicitors —Messrs, Edward = Davies iy that he was ihe link with the missing » Nelson & Co. ; Messrs, Lewis. &.Lewisnand sueeesicd that he might be } Gishonas $e, wi THAT#2A AATAOTIONY ge Seed aay tink, was fai if etl = ied tbe by FASS lectin TEESE ce nen eZ, lace, ce ee . t