28 Jan 2016
CHANG WA SHAN v. ESTHER CHAN PUI KWAN also known as CHAN PUI CHUN
- Citation
- CHANG WA SHAN v. ESTHER CHAN PUI KWAN also known as CHAN PUI CHUN
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA1855/2010
The utterance was protected by absolute privilege and the plaintiff failed to establish slander and malicious falsehood (including lack of pecuniary loss); accordingly the action should not have been instituted, but because the defendant's stance on two issues caused additional trial time the court exercised its discretion to vary the order nisi and awarded the defendant only 50% of her costs to be taxed on a party-and-party basis.