1. ) AFNAN HAMIMI BIN TAIB AZAMUDDEN 2. ) Ketua Editor Harakahdaily 3. ) GALERI MEDIA SERBANIKA SDN BHD v HANINI BINTI SIRON
Catchwords
1. This is an appeal by the Appellants/Defendants against the decision of the Sessions Court which allowed the Respondent/Plaintiff’s claim in defamation and awarded damages in the sum of RM100,000.00 together with costs of RM15,000.00 after a full trial. 2. The factual matrix of this case bears some peculiarity. An original Facebook posting was made by the Respondent/Plaintiff herself. The present claim, however, does not arise from that original posting. Instead, it is founded upon two subsequent responses/postings published by the First Appellant/Defendant. These postings were then republished by the Second and Third Appellants/Respondents, who are respectively the Editor-in-Chief and publisher of an online news portal. 3. The Respondent/Plaintiff’s initial posting on her Facebook account, which had gone viral, contained allegations concerning the conduct of the Menteri Besar of Kedah, in particular alleged breaches of the Movement Control Order (“MCO”) standard operating procedures. This prompted the First Appellant/Defendant to issue two subsequent postings, which were made in his capacity as Political Secretary to the Menteri Besar of Kedah and which are characterised by the Respondent/Plaintiff as defamatory of her. 4. The parties are referred to as they were in the Sessions Court.
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Judgment
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