Read the full judgment text of CACV 000371/2000 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 27 June 2001.
1. On 18 November 2000, the Oriental Press Group Ltd (lst plaintiff) and Ma Ching Fat (2nd plaintiff) issued a writ against Next Magazine Publishing Ltd (lst defendant), Cheung Kim Hung (2nd defendant) and Toppan Printing Co. (H.K.) Ltd (3rd defendant) claiming damages for defamation . The proprietor and publisher of Next Magazine is the lst plaintiff and the 2nd defendant and the 3rd defendant are respectively the chief editor and printer of the magazine. The plaintiffs claimed that an article