Read the full judgment text of HCA 016078/1999 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 3 December 2002.
1. This is an action in defamation. The plaintiff and the defendant had both stood for election to the Sha Tin District Board in 1994. The defendant won by a narrow margin. At the material time in July 1999, the defendant was a member of the Sha Tin Provisional District Board ("the Board"), which was established on 1 July 1997 and his term of office was to expire on 31 December 1999, when the Board was to be replaced by the Sha Tin District Council ("the District Council"), after the first ordin
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