Read the full judgment text of CACV 221/2015 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 13 January 2017.
1. This is an appeal by the defendants against the judgment of Chung J who awarded, among other things, general damages in the sum of $700,000 to the plaintiff for beingdefamed by an article that appeared in the Apple Daily of 25 May 2008 and another article that appeared at the newspaper’s website until 23 November 2011. While originally the appeal is both on liability and damages, the issue now is solely on the correctness of the award of general damages of $700,000.
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