Read the full judgment text of CACV 000028/1997 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 8 May 1997.
1. This is an interlocutory appeal. It arises from a writ issued by three plaintiffs against the publisher of Next Magazine and its editor-in-chief in respect of an article published on 2 September 1994 entitled "Bluffing Lecturers: False Curriculum Vitae". The three plaintiffs are respectively (1) The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a body corporate with perpetual succession and capable of suing and being sued in its name: see s3(1) The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Ordinance, Cap 1075; (2