Read the full judgment text of CACV 232/2014 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 24 November 2015.
1. On 22 October 2014, Suffiad J handed down judgment in an action for defamation. The plaintiffs sued on two articles published in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on 16 and 17 December 2010 (“the 1 st Article” and “the 2 nd Article”). The defendants raised the defences of justification and fair comment. The judge held that fair comment was established in respect of the 1 st Article and, should it be necessary, he was prepared to hold that the words complained of in the 1 st Article bear a lesser