28 May 1987
YU KWONG CHIU AND ANOTHER v. CONSOLIDATED NEWSPAPERS LTD
- Citation
- YU KWONG CHIU AND ANOTHER v. CONSOLIDATED NEWSPAPERS LTD
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA258/1986
The court found on the evidence that the anonymised name and contextual particulars could only refer to the Church of God in Hong Kong and that the articles were defamatory in their natural and ordinary meaning (including imputations of promoting prostitution, child sex and encouraging suicide, among others). The publications were of and concerning each plaintiff because they were elders in control of the organisation and a reasonable reader would so understand. The defendant did not justify the statements and its attempts to mitigate by reference to prior publications, rumours, an apology in…