15 Sept 1999
ORIENTAL DAILY PUBLISHER LTD. AND ANOTHER v. MING PAO HOLDINGS LTD. AND OTHERS
- Citation
- ORIENTAL DAILY PUBLISHER LTD. AND ANOTHER v. MING PAO HOLDINGS LTD. AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA5612/1995
Court found 1st Plaintiff was a shell registered licence holder without operative proprietorship or publisher functions and thus lacked standing to sue as proprietor/publisher; key impugned passages about the 2nd Plaintiff were in part protected as fair comment and, on the facts, were justified because the 2nd Plaintiff had influenced the Oriental Daily News to attack TVB; accordingly plaintiffs' claims failed and defendants succeeded; costs ordered to follow the event in favour of defendants.