9 May 2018
YIU SHING YIN v. KWOK YIK HO AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- [2018] HKDC 514
- Court
- District Court
- Case number
- DCCJ4437/2016
The court accepted defendants' evidence and rejected the plaintiff's; on the balance of probabilities the pleaded meanings were substantially true because multiple proxies were found forged or fake and the plaintiff had instructed an agent to vandalise defendants' signage; publication was protected by common-interest qualified privilege and was not excessive given the context; the plaintiff had orally consented to the posting and acquiesced for months before objecting; plaintiff's non-disclosure and credibility failures supported adverse inferences. Accordingly the defendants' defences of jus…