Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z Vol. 3, No. 5.
Suggested Reforms:
Suggested Reforms:
Essential reforms in the laws of libel are (1) the abolition of the power to award damages where no financial loss has been sustained, a plaintiff who has suffered defamation of character being given a declaration clearing his character which the libelling newspaper would be compelled to print in a form prescribed by the Court; and (2) the codification of a simplified law in one clear Act of Parliament.