Private international law - Practice - Service out of jurisdiction - Reasonable evidence - Evidence in support must show compliance with requirements - Prima facie case - Insufficient verification of the cause of action sued upon - Rules of the Supreme Court, O.XI, r1, r2.

Practice and procedure - Pleadings - Amendment - Claim for damages for personal injuries - Substantial alteration in factual basis of claim - Limitation period expired before amendment sought - Whether new cause of action raised.

Appeal - Statutory negligence - Intersection - Obligation to "give way" to approaching vehicle - Failure to give way - Negligence - Road traffic regulation - Subjective element - Misdirection of law - New trial ordered where the jury may have been influenced by the misdirection - Road Traffic Regulations 1962, reg601, reg603(2)(a).

Will - Construction - Income to widow till death or remarriage - "Children of my children" - "Date of distribution" - Who take vested interest at that date.

Criminal law - Criminal liability and capacity - Revenue offences - Whether mens rea must be proved - Whether knowledge of defendant of use to which equipment is to be put must be proved. Customs and excise - Illicit spirits - Making a still - Part of a still made - Lack of knowledge by defendant that part made was intended to be used as part of a still - Distillation Act 1901-1956 (Com.), s5, s6, s10.

Probate duty - Appeal against assessment - Land used for primary production - Passing of that land on death to a person related by blood or marriage - Rebate of duty - Meaning of "passes to" - Requirement of a valid assent - Probate Duty Act 1962 (No. 6890) (as amended by Act No. 6970), s24 - Administration and Probate Act 1958 (No. 6191), s41.

Practice and procedure - Statement of claim - Libel action - Allegation of publication in Victoria and in other jurisdictions - Application to strike out part of allegation - Whether plaintiff should be permitted to litigate publication in different jurisdictions - Whether plaintiff should be compelled to institute separate actions in different jurisdictions - Rules of pleading complied with - Application to strike out inappropriate - Rules of Supreme Court, O.XVIII, r8; O.XIX, r27.

Practice and procedure - Statement of claim - Libel action - Allegation of publication in Victoria and in other jurisdictions - Application to strike out part of allegation - Whether plaintiff should be permitted to litigate publication in different jurisdictions - Whether plaintiff should be compelled to institute separate actions in different jurisdictions - Rules of pleading complied with - Application to strike out inappropriate - Rules of Supreme Court, O.XVIII, r8; O.XIX, r27.

Chemist - Pharmaceutical chemist - Conduct discreditable to a pharmaceutical chemist - Appeal - Standard of proof - Balance of probabilities - Breach of undertaking may be discreditable conduct - Discreditable conduct less than infamous conduct - Absence from pharmacy when open for business - "Actual personal supervision" - Medical Act 1958 (No. 6309) (as amended by Medical Act 1959 (No. 6528)), s96, s101, s109.

Transport regulation - Metropolitan taxi-cab licence - Decision of Transport Regulation Board - Revocation of licence - Revocation approved by Governor in Council - Crown practice - Certiorari against Board - Order in Council effects revocation - Discretionary nature of writ - Will not issue if ineffective - Transport Regulation Act 1958 (No. 6400), s31, s32.

Public health - Adulterated food - Information - Amendment - Information laid out of time - Food purchased from person other than defendant - Time limit for laying information applies to sale by wholesaler - Health Act 1958 (No. 6270), s238, s291, s295. Justices - Amendment of information after informant's case closed - "Variance" - Discretion to allow or refuse amendment - Justices Act 1958 (No. 6282), s88, s200, s215.

Infants - Custody - Ward of court - Supervision of wardship by court.

Damages - Personal injuries - Loss of future earnings - Future pain and suffering and loss of amenities - Paralysed plaintiff - Quantum - Excessive award - Evidence of expert concerning past increases in nominal wages - Admissibility - Lack of evidence concerning likelihood of future increases in real wages - Judge's direction to jury concerning use to be made of evidence - Contingencies of life - Adequacy of judge's charge to jury.

Sale of land - Compromise of action by agreement for sale of land - Agreement signed by counsel but not by the parties - Counsel for defendant not authorized in writing by his client to sign compromise - Part performance - Estoppel - Instruments Act 1958 (No. 6279), s126, s127.

Practice - Criminal law - Contempt of court - Supreme Court may punish for contempt of inferior court - Unprovoked assault on Crown witness committed after termination of trial in court of general sessions - Whether punishable contempt of court.

Trust property - Sale by auction - Leave to trustee to bid at auction - Granted only in interests of trust estate - Summons under Property Law Act not an originating summons - "Originating summons" - Property Law Act 1958 (No. 6344), s37, s203 - Rules of the Supreme Court, O.LXXI, r1; O.LV, r3(g).

Criminal law - Identification - Accused previously known by identifying witness - Witness recognizing accused's voice - Trial judge's warning to the jury - Sufficiency of warning.

Estoppel - Claim for damages for personal injuries - Previous proceedings between same parties - Claim and counter-claim in respect of property damage - Findings of negligence on the part of both parties - Claims reduced by a percentage - Plaintiff estopped from alleging that defendant alone was negligent and from denying contributory negligence - Plaintiff not estopped from contending that his damages for personal injuries be reduced by a different percentage - Wrongs Act 1958 (No. 6420), s26.

Workers compensation - Assessment and amount of compensation - Amount of compensation in case of death - Reduction of amount to allow for present payment - Amount of compensation to be such sum as in the opinion of the Board is reasonable - Whether opinion of Board vitiated by failing to take into account the fact of present payment - Workers Compensation Act 1958 (No. 6419), s9 CL1(a).

Police offences - Possession of property suspected of being stolen or unlawfully obtained - Whether such suspicion should exist up to the date of hearing - Police Offences Act (No. 6337), s42 - Function of Supreme Court on case stated by court of general sessions - Justices Act (No. 6282), s152(1).

Public health - Adulterated food - Sale effected by seller's agent - Seller and agent both prosecuted - Part of sample given to agent but no part given to seller - No request to seller for part - Health Act 1958 (No. 6270), s238, s281(1), s298(1) - Justices Act 1958 (No. 6282), s77.

Practice - Specially endorsed writ - No request or order for pleadings - Counter- claim by defendant - Plaintiff's action struck out for want of prosecution - Judgment entered on counter-claim in default of defence - Defence to counter-claim not required - Application to set aside judgment - Rules of the Supreme Court, O.XVIII (A), rI, O.XXIII, r4, O.XXVII, r11, r15, and O.XXXVI, r25.

Statutes - Interpretation - Rules of construction - Construction with reference to consequences - Unworkability - Motor Boating Act 1961 (No. 6832), s6, s7, s9, and s11.

Road traffic - Failing to yield right of way - Danger of collision - First entry into the intersection irrelevant - Failure to prove regulation - Leave to tender Regulations on return of order nisi - Road Traffic Regulations 1962, reg602(3), as enacted by SR No. 59 of 1964 - Road Traffic Act 1958 (No. 6359).

Matrimonial causes - Custody of young children - Wife's application to be relieved of contractual undertaking given at divorce hearing - Undertaking not to take the children of the marriage out of Victoria - Interests of children the "paramount consideration" - Welfare of the children superior to all other considerations - Matrimonial Causes Act 1959 (Com.), s85(1).

Criminal law - Burglariously breaking and entering and striking or beating - Statutory offence - Presentment - "Burglariously" - Crimes Act 1958 (No. 6231), s130. Evidence - Tape recording of record of interview admissible - Second caution not necessary for tape recording.

Criminal law - Confessions - Admissibility - Record of interview between police and accused - Record not signed by accused - Part of record adopted by accused - Whole documentary record admitted in evidence - Appeal - Substantial miscarriage of justice - Crimes Act 1958 (No. 6231), s568.

Criminal law - Sentence - Minimum term - Sentence to be served concurrently with a sentence in respect of which no minimum term was fixed - Crimes Act 1958 (No. 6231), s535(2), as enacted by Crimes (Sentences and Parole) Act 1959 (No. 6572), s3 - Gaols Act 1958 (No. 6259), s18(1), s19(1), as amended by Gaols (Commencement of Sentences) Act 1966 (No. 7469).

Will - Devise of land - Interpretation - Extrinsic evidence - Falsa demonstratio - Debts, expenses and duties - Ambiguity - Intention to benefit, not for devise to be absorbed by debts and duties.

Criminal law - Rape - Intention to have intercourse without consent.

Probate duty - Appeal against assessment - Onus of proof - Valuation of land forming part of dutiable estate - Source of Supreme Court's jurisdiction to hear appeal - Notional estate - Gift inter vivos - Sale of land by deceased to company - Inadequate consideration - Bona fide commercial transaction - Parties to sale not at arm's length - "Full consideration" - Valuation of land forming part of dutiable estate - Unused and unmade street dividing land - Persons entitled to right of way unknown - Land held under continuous adverse possession for less than 30 years - Administration and Probate Act 1958 (No. 6191), s100 - Probate Duty Act 1962 (No. 6890), s19 - Valuation of Land Act 1960 (No. 6653), s2, s5A, PtIII - Valuation of Land (Appeals) Act 1965 (No. 7276), s13.

Limitation of actions - Cause of action in tort - No statutory notice given - Application for leave to bring action - Repeal of section requiring giving of statutory notice after conclusion of argument but before judgment - Liability for costs - Limitation of Actions Act 1958 (No. 6295), s34 - Acts Interpretation Act 1958 (No. 6189), s7 - Limitation of Actions (Notice of Action) Act 1966 (No. 7457), s2.

Probate duty - Sale of land by testator to company - Part of purchase price satisfied by the issue of preference shares - General power of appointment - Power to dispose of property - Testator with right to convert preference shares to ordinary shares - Testator died without exercising right to convert shares - Right ceasing on death - Gift inter vivos - Actual estate - Notional estate - Administration and Probate Act 1958 (No. 6191), s100, s104(1)(b), s104(1)(f), s104(1)(j) - Probate Duty Act 1962 (No. 6890), s7(1)(b), s7(1)(f), s7(1)(j).

Marketing of primary products - Tobacco - Basic quota of tobacco grower - Appeal from refusal by Tobacco Quota Committee to increase quota - Appeal to Tobacco Quota Appeals Tribunal - Grower's basic quota increased - Tobacco Quota Appeals Tribunal empowered to increase quota - Manner in which increased basic quota operates - Interim Quota Committee - "Basic quota" - "Grower's basic quota" - "In respect of" - Tobacco Leaf Industry Stabilization Act 1966 (No. 7427), s1(1), s2, s4, s6(6), s14, s24, s26, s27, s29, s31, s33 - Marketing of Primary Products Act 1958 (No. 6304), s17, s20, s21, s25(2) - Tobacco Marketing Act 1965 (Com.).

Stamp duty - Company carrying on insurance business - Policies of insurance issued by company but no premium payable in respect thereof - Liability to take out annual licence - Minimum stamp duty payable - Stamps Act 1958 (No. 6375) (as amended), s17, s96, s97, s98, s99, s100, s106 and Heading XI of the Third Schedule.

Estate agents - Requirement for statement to be furnished to purchaser - Representation as to finance - Statement that balance of deposit payable on signing of contract - Condition of contract that balance of deposit payable within 14 days of date of sale note - Materiality - Estate Agents Act 1958 (No. 6245), s34 - Estate Agents (Amendment) Act 1960 (No. 6734), s3 - Estate Agents (Amendment) Act 1966 (No. 7425), s4.

Practice - Service of writ under Service and Execution of Process Act 1901-1963 (Com.) - Conditional appearance by defendant - Application by defendant to have service set aside - Action claiming indemnity by the plaintiff pursuant to s62 of the Workers Compensation Act 1958 - "Contract" - Service and Execution of Process Act 1901-1963 (Com.), s11.

Infant - Custody proceedings - Jurisdiction of court - Domicil - Infants not ordinarily resident in Victoria - No power to make orders sought.

Practice - Action in tort - Joint tort-feasors - Third-party proceedings - Joinder of wife of plaintiff as third party - Per quod servitium amisit - Loss of consortium - No cause of action between plaintiff and third party - Wrongs Act 1958 (No. 6420), s24(1)(c), s24(1)(d).

Marketing of primary products - Tobacco - Provisional tobacco marketing quota allocated by Tobacco Leaf Marketing Board - "Grower's basic quota" - Grower's basic quota attaching both land and person - Land to which quota attached compulsorily acquired - Transfer of quota to other land - Holders of basic quota in partnership - Partnership dissolved - Marketing of Primary Products Act 1958 (No. 6304) - Tobacco Leaf Industry Stabilization Act 1966 (No. 7427), s1, s3, s4, s6, s23 to s27, s29, s30, s32, s33.

Companies - Order for release of liquidator - Application for extension of time in which to appeal - Contributor of company - Applicant an undischarged bankrupt - Competency to make application - Companies Act 1961 (No. 6839), s220(2).

Practice - Poor persons - Application for leave to defend in forma pauperis - Property "the subject-matter of the cause of matter" to be excepted when determining value of assets - Action connected with building operations on the defendant's land - Defendant's title or right to possession of the property not in question - Rules of the Supreme Court, O.XVI, r22.

Workers compensation - Case stated - Disputed questions of fact - No question of law arising - Court declining to answer the questions submitted - Workers Compensation Act 1958 (No. 6419), s56(3).

Arbitration - Action arising from a building dispute - Parties willing to have matters in dispute referred for report by an architect - Appropriate form of order referring matter for report and giving directions - Arbitration Act 1958 (No. 6200), s14, s16.

Infant - Custody - Parent and child - Habeas corpus - Right of parents - Welfare of child - Appeal - Marriage Act 1958 (No. 6300), s149, s151.

Will - Interpretation - Gift to "all my children who shall survive me" - Substitutionary gift to children of child of testatrix predeceasing testatrix - "If any of my children shall predecease me" - "Shall" - Intention.

Workers compensation - Case stated - Widow's claim in respect of deceased worker - Worker died whilst at work as a result of a coronary occlusion - Such occlusion suffered by the deceased while on his way to work - Whether or not this was injury - If not was the death materially contributed to by the deceased's walking to work - Workers Compensation Act 1958 (No. 6419), s3(1), s8(2), as amended by Act No. 7292 of 1965.

Justices - Order to review - Costs - Informations against both defendants dismissed - Order that the defendants pay the informant's costs - No jurisdiction to make such order - Justices Act 1958 (No. 6282), s105.

Administration and probate - Purposive trust for the publication of a book - No indication of character or content of the work to be published - Purposive trust for the preparation and publication of the testator's own literary works - Trust not for the advancement of education or the public benefit.

Bankruptcy - Scheme of arrangement - Trustees of scheme - Management of debtors' business - Sale of debtors' business - Claim by debtors for administration, accounts, inquiries and possession of the business - Jurisdiction of Supreme Court - Jurisdiction of Federal Court - Concurrent jurisdiction - Exercise of court's discretion - Bankruptcy Act 1924-1965 (Com.), s25, s148, s149, s162(8).

Husband and wife - Matrimonial property - Property held by husband alone - Effect of court's declaration that property held on trust - Wife's rights prospective only - Sale of property at under-value prior to declaration - Marriage Act 1958 (No. 6306), s161 - Marriage (Property) Act 1962 (No. 6924), s3.

Workers compensation - Dismissal of common law action for want of prosecution - Application to remit action to Workers Compensation Board for assessment of compensation - Whether the injury was one for which the defendant "is not liable" in the action - Workers Compensation Act 1958 (No. 6419), s63(1).

Lottery - Gaming - Sale of packets of soap powder containing tokens - Conducting and assisting in conducting a lottery - Participant entitled gratuitously to participate - All participants must be so entitled - Lotteries Gaming and Betting Act 1966 (No. 7429), s5, s7.

Criminal law - Appeal against conviction - Trial judge's direction to the jury - Inadequate direction on issue of identification - No objection taken at the trial - General discretion of appellate court - Interests of justice - Crimes Act 1958 (No. 6231), s568(1).

Public authorities - Authorized undertakings - Easements - High tension power lines - Alternative routes - True and real exercise of statutory powers by public authority - "Do as little damage as may be" - Permit under interim development order - State Electricity Commission Act 1958 (No. 6377), s3, s21(1), s106 - Town and Country Planning Act 1961 (No. 6849), s17, s18, s19, s20, s21, s22, s25.

Companies - Winding up - Application of assets - Debts - Unsecured creditors - Power of liquidator to pay any class of creditors in full - Limits of power - Debts incurred subsequent to creditor's meeting - Companies Act 1961 (No. 6839), s236, s269.

Matrimonial causes - Arrears of maintenance - Sale of land by respondent - Petitioner's application that part of proceeds be paid into court - Further application for moneys in court to be paid to petitioner for arrears of maintenance and costs - Whether respondent attempting to defeat an existing or anticipated order - Time of formulation of intention - Onus of proof - Matrimonial Causes Act 1959 (Com.), s120.

Wills - Construction and effect of testamentary dispositions - Legacies and divises - Ademption - Specific legacy of unsecured note - Note surrendered and new note allotted on similar terms - Whether adeemed - Wills Act 1958 (No. 6416), s22.

Matrimonial causes - Petition by husband on grounds of wife's adultery with co-respondent - Uncorroborated evidence of adultery by petitioner - Standard of proof required - Matrimonial Causes Act 1959-1966 (Com.), s96.

Licensing - Gratuitous disposal of liquor to guests by licensee - Whether disposal took place in a room "occupied by him or reserved for his private use" - No notice of any reservation for private use - Guests in main lounge - Bona fide traveller also present - Licensing Act 1958 (No. 6293), s170, s181.

Criminal law - Manslaughter - Acts resulting in death - Intentional infliction of bodily harm - Unlawful and dangerous act - Requisite mental element - Realization of risk by accused need not be proved - Direction to jury - Manslaughter by criminal negligence.

Administration and probate - Estate of a deceased person - "Gift inter vivos" - "Settlement" - Disposition to "taking effect upon or after the death" of settlor - "Power which may affect the enjoyment" of gift - Administration and Probate Act 1958 (No. 6191), s100, s104 - Probate Duty Act 1962 (No. 6890), s19.

Practice - Interest on judgment - Appeal - Appellant successful - No application at trial or on appeal by successful appellant for interest on judgment - "Slip rule" does not apply - Rules of the Supreme Court, O.XXVIII, r11 - Supreme Court Act 1958 (No. 6387), s78, as substituted by Act No. 6874 of 1962, s2.

Libel and slander - Practice - Likelihood of repetition of statements - Further repetition compensable by damages - Interlocutory injunction only in clear case - Supreme Court Act 1958 (No. 6387), s62(2).

Health - Seizure of meat alleged to be unbranded - Claim for return of meat - Interest of claimant in goods seized - Order for return of meat - Seizure (Claims Procedure) Regulations 1925 - Health Act 1958 (No. 6270), s322, s408.

Public health - Sale of toys containing lead in excess of the quantity prescribed - No prescription of percentage of lead in paint on toys - Health Act 1958 (No. 6270), s245(a) - Health Act 1959 (No. 6507), s7 - Poisonous Substances Regulations 1955, r2 - Poisonous Substances Regulations 1960.

Matrimonial causes - Variation of maintenance - Variation may be retrospective - Changed circumstances including substantial rise in value of shares owned by former wife - Remarriage of former husband - Increased education and other expenses for children - all the circumstances to be considered to determine what is just and equitable - Matrimonial Causes Act 1959-1965 (Com.), s84, s87.

Costs - Judgment for defendant with costs on first trial - Judgment set aside and new trial ordered by Full Court - No order by Full Court as to costs of first trial - Power of judge at retrial to deal with costs of first trial - Rules of the Supreme Court, O.LXV, r1. Costs - Poor person - Civil suits and actions - Liability of pauper for costs.

Husband and wife - Matrimonial home - Application by wife under s161 of the Marriage Act 1958 - Applicant an undischarged bankrupt - Right to make application - Marriage Act 1958 (No. 6306), s161 (as amended by Act No. 6924) - Bankruptcy Act 1924-1965 (Com.), s91.

Real property - Writ for possession - Judgment in default of defence - Application to set judgment aside - Description of land in judgment correct but at variance with description in writ - Default in paying interest under mortgage - Nature of mortgagee's right to possession - Notice specifying breach and requiring remedy not required - Property Law Act 1958 (No. 6344), s146(1) - Rules of the Supreme Court, O.LIV, r16.

Motor-car - Refusal to take breath test - Request made on the footpath outside a police station - Instrument set up in a police car in the street outside the police station - Police station closed - Breath test "at" the nearest police station - "At" - Crimes Act 1958 (No. 6231), s408A.

Damages - Personal injury - Assessment of general damages by judge - Inadequacy - Appeal - Review by appellate court - Substitution of new award by appellate court - County Court Act 1958 (No. 6230), s74.

Negligence - Dangerous chattels - Sulphuric acid in school classroom - Injuries to child trespasser - Occupier's duty of care - Unknown and unanticipated trespasser - Presence of plaintiff on premises contrary to regulations.

Insurance - Motor vehicle - Motor vehicle "being used whilst in an unsafe condition" - Bald tyres - Vehicle in safe condition at time of accident.

Justices - Information for indictable offence which may be disposed of summarily - Offence more than 12 months before the date of the information - Information statute barred if dealt with summarily - Discretion to propose to dispose of case summarily - Matters to be considered in exercising discretion - Justices Act 1958 (No. 6282), s102A, s102B, s103(1), s215, s221.

Damages - Damages claimed for loss of earnings - Illegal source of income - Business carried on without permit - Business unlawfully carried on in residential area - Planning scheme - Town and Country Planning Act 1961 (N. 6849), s49.

Justices - Order to review - Found on premises without lawful excuse - Proof of incorporation of owner of premises unnecessary - Ingredients of offence - Vagrancy Act 1966 (No. 7393), s7(1)(i).

Motor car - Vehicle and traffic - Driving - Driving a vehicle being towed by another vehicle - Motor Car Act 1958 (No. 6325), s81A - Motor Car (Driving Offence) Act 1965 (No. 7327), s2.

Arbitration - Stay of proceedings - Insurance contract - Operation of Commonwealth and State Acts - Insurance - Life insurance - Accident insurance - Life policy - Additional policy with further benefit upon accidental death - Continuous disability insurance contract - Arbitration clause - Life Insurance Act 1945-1961 (Com.) - Arbitration Act 1958 (No. 6200), s5 - Instruments Act 1958 (No. 6279), s28, s29.

Criminal law - Motor car - Blood alcohol content exceeding .05 per cent - Breath test - Certificate in writing of the percentage of alcohol in blood to be served - Copy of certificate inadmissible - Crimes Act 1958 (No. 6231), s408A as amended by Act No. 7546, s10.

Estoppel - Estoppel by record - Judgment inter partes - Separate actions by different plaintiffs against same defendants in respect of single occurrence - Contribution proceedings between defendant in each action - Effect of result of contribution proceedings in earlier action upon those in later action - Wrongs Act 1958 (No. 6240), s24. Estoppel - General principles - Negative effect only. Tort - Joint and several tort-feasors - Contribution between tort-feasors - Tort-feasor who is liable - Meaning of "liable" - Effect upon contribution proceedings of judgment in action - Wrongs Act 1958 (No. 6240), s24.

Criminal law - Habeas corpus - Contempt of court - Order nisi for habeas corpus refused - No right of appeal to Full Court - No jurisdiction in Full Court to hear application de novo - Justices Act 1958 (No. 6282), s196 - Supreme Court Act 1958 (No. 6387), s41.

Evidence - Lands reserved for public purpose - Trustees of land - Power to make rules and regulations - Prosecution for breach of regulations - Production of Government Gazette - Prima facie evidence of making regulations - Presumption of regularity - Judicial notice of site of land - "Deface" - Evidence Act 1958 (No. 6246), s63, s64 - Land Act 1928 (No. 3709), s14, s21, s182.

Contract - Co-operative society - Implied contract between member and society - Breach of that contract by society - Member fined and suspended - Society liable in action by member for damages including fine - Co-operation Act 1958 (No. 6225), s58, s64.

Practice - Application for dismissal of action for want of prosecution - Relevant matters in exercise of discretion considered - Detriment to defendant's case due to delay - Evidence relating to issue of plaintiff's contributory negligence no longer available - Plaintiff's counsel's undertaking to consent to judgment equal to 50 per cent of any damages that may be awarded at eventual trial - Rules of Supreme Court, O.XXXVI, r12.

Practice - Motor car - Costs as between two defendants - Notice for contribution served by filing with Prothonotary - Notice by one defendant of readiness to contribute - Subsequent notice for contribution served by each defendant - Discretion as to costs - Rules of the Supreme Court, O.XVI(A), r14, r16; O.LXVII, r4; O.LXX.

Defamation - Statements amounting to defamation - Innuendo - Particulars of meaning of defamatory statement assigned by plaintiff - True innuendo and false innuendo - Questions to jury. Defamation - Actions for defamation - Pleading - Defence - Plea of "no libel".

Defamation - Actions for defamation - Pleading - Defence - Plea of "no libel". Defamation - Libel or slander - Distinction - Radio broadcast - Whether actionable without proof of special damage - Broadcasting and Television Act 1942-1966 (Com.), s124.

Local government - Highway - Private street construction scheme - Objections, grounds and particulars - Scheme for substantial raising of level of roadway along frontagers' boundary - Frontager's private right of access thereto - Statutory powers of public body - Infringement of private rights - Whether authorized expressly or by necessary implication - Local Government Act 1958 (No. 6299), s535, s575, s576, s577, s578, s579.

Local government - Rates - Exemption of Crown - Land vested in State Electricity Commission not Crown land - Dispute between Commission and municipality may be determined by Governor in Council - Jurisdiction of Court to decide dispute - Land used for "private" or "public" purpose - Local Government Act 1958 (No. 6299), s251 - State Electricity Commission Act 1958 (No. 6377), s4, s12, s21, s108.