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Evidence on trial for defamation

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42 Evidence on trial for defamation

On the trial of a person charged with the unlawful publication of defamatory matter which is contained in a periodical, after evidence sufficient in the opinion of the court has been given of the publication by the accused person of the number or part of the periodical containing the matter complained of, other writings or prints purporting to be other numbers or parts of the same periodical previously or subsequently published, and containing a printed statement that they were published by or for the accused person, shall be admissible in evidence on either side, without further proof of publication of them.

The term periodical includes any newspaper, review, magazine, or other writing or print, published periodically.

[43. Deleted: No. 10 of 1960 s. 2.]

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Evidence Act 1906 s 42 — Evidence on trial for defamation (Western Australia) — Barrister AI