John Morley: “Yet I see, to my great regret and astonishment, that this Act is…”

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Yet I see, to my great regret and astonishment, that this Act is described as an Act for judging cases of seditious libel without a Jury.

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John Morley

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Morley expresses his dismay at the characterization of the new Act as one that undermines jury trials for seditious libel.

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