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Hong Kong Case Law

Publication element of defamation
  • 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…