14 Nov 2017
CHUNG MING YU AND OTHERS v. NEXT MAGAZINE PUBLISHING LTD AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- CHUNG MING YU AND OTHERS v. NEXT MAGAZINE PUBLISHING LTD AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA785/2011
The court held the disputed re-amendments were inconsistent with the plaintiffs' pleaded primary case and unnecessary for fairly disposing of the matter and therefore correctly disallowed; the biblical-reference and Concern Group pleas and corresponding parts of witness statements were inadmissible and irrelevant to the natural and ordinary meaning of the words or to defendants' pleaded defences (justification, fair comment, Reynolds) and thus rightly struck out; plaintiffs' appeal was dismissed and consequential directions and costs orders were made.