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WRONGS ACT 1958 - SECT 13 Costs

WRONGS ACT 1958 - SECT 13

Costs

In case of any charge by a private prosecutor for the publication of any defamatory libel if judgment is given for the accused, he shall be entitled to recover from the prosecutor the costs sustained by the said accused by reason of such charge; and upon a special plea of justification to such charge if the issue is found for the prosecutor, he shall be entitled to recover from the accused the costs sustained by the prosecutor by reason of such plea, such costs so to be recovered by the accused or prosecutor respectively to be assessed by the proper officer of the court before which the said charge is tried.

S. 13AA inserted by No. 68/2009 s. 97(Sch. item 137.5).