9 Oct 2009
CHANG WA SHAN v. CHAN CHUN CHUEN
- Citation
- CHANG WA SHAN v. CHAN CHUN CHUEN
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP1101/2009
The court found the applicant established a prima facie case of defamation arising from counsel's statement and press reports, satisfied the Norwich Pharmacal elements that an innocent third party (the respondent) had been mixed up in the wrongdoing, and that privilege had been effectively waived by the open court disclosure; balancing the interests, the court exercised its discretion to grant a targeted disclosure order to identify the informant to enable the applicant to sue for defamation.