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.