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Hong Kong Case Law

Verification duty
  • 6 Sept 2013

    PUI KWAN KAY v. MING PAO HOLDINGS LTD AND OTHERS

    Citation
    PUI KWAN KAY v. MING PAO HOLDINGS LTD AND OTHERS
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCA854/2010

    Qualified privilege was not established because the defendants relied fundamentally on a single reporter's report without reviewing other contemporaneous newspaper accounts that contained materially different and more detailed coverage, they failed to fairly present or draw readers' attention to the plaintiff's subsequent answers, and given the seriousness and tone of the allegations a reasonable and responsible journalist would have taken those additional verifying and contextualising steps.