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  • 16 Aug 2019

    WONG CHING YEE v. WAI SHUK YIN

    Citation
    [2019] HKDC 1104
    Court
    District Court
    Case number
    DCCJ3187/2015

    Court found the natural and ordinary meanings: parts of the Facebook posts imputed repeated harassment and refusal to pay maternity leave and alleged unlawful conduct; the Shop/e‑Notice imputed the plaintiff disregarded customers' interests. On the facts the defendant proved substantially true that the plaintiff had behaved unreasonably in pressuring/harassing the defendant during maternity period and had refused to authorize payment of maternity leave pay; the court further found the intellectual property in the products belonged to the company and the plaintiff had competing conduct amounti…