15 Jul 2019
李靜 對 張少慧
- Citation
- [2019] HKCFI 1729
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA767/2018
The statement of claim failed to disclose a reasonable cause of action for defamation because it did not identify the allegedly defamatory words or their meanings and did not show publication by the defendant to third parties; two of the three impugned documents were not authored by the defendant; the claim about superior's 'approval' misreads a certified-copy endorsement and is not a cause of action; the pleading amounted to a collateral attack on a dismissed judicial review and was therefore frivolous, vexatious and an abuse of process; accordingly the defendant's strike-out application was…