[56] The publication of the said advertisement in the Malay Mail shall be privileged, unless it is proved to be made with malice, pursuant to s. 12 of the Act read together with para. 3 of Part I of the Schedule to the Act. A person who requested for the publication of an advertisement would have to pay for that service. What ill-will can be imputed when the 1st respondent is not a party to the bankruptcy proceedings and clearly would not even know whether the debt or judgment sum has been settled by the appellant. One cannot even impute any knowledge to the 1st respondent whatsoever even if the application for substituted service was improper. In Searles v. Scarlett [1892] 2 QB 56 an action for libel was dismissed on the ground that the publication of a mere copy of what is contained in a register of judgments is privileged. The facts of the case are as follows. The plaintiff was a hotel-keeper and the defendant was the secretary of the Ramsgate Trade Protection Association. An extract from the register of county court judgments was published in The Weekly Journal of the Associated Trade Protection Societies of Great Britain and Ireland issued by the Ramsgate and District Trade Pr