17 Apr 2002
ORIENTAL PRESS GROUP LTD. v. NEXT MAGAZINE PUBLISHING LTD. AND OTHERS
- Citation
- ORIENTAL PRESS GROUP LTD. v. NEXT MAGAZINE PUBLISHING LTD. AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV1006/2000
The Court held that on the proper construction the words complained of were not reasonably capable of bearing the pleaded natural or innuendo defamatory meanings save that a limited less injurious innuendo (that appointment was approved by a fugitive from justice) could stand if the extrinsic fact of flight were proved from earlier articles; the estoppel objection failed; Mr Yip could be a witness of extrinsic facts but could not be equated with an ordinary reader; and the judge did not abuse her discretion in ordering costs for the amendment.