Court of appeal overturns RM50,000 defamation award granted to Lim Guan Eng
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Court of Appeal overturns RM50,000 defamation award against Zuraida Kamaruddin, ruling the statements about Lim Guan Eng were not defamatory
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PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal today overturned a High Court ruling that had ordered former housing and local government minister Datuk Zuraida Kamaruddin and two others to pay RM50,000 in damages to DAP adviser Lim Guan Eng for defamation.
A three-judge panel comprising Justices Datuk Seri Mohd Firuz Jaffril, Datuk Ahmad Kamal Md Shahid, and Datuk Amarjeet Singh unanimously allowed the appeals filed by Zuraida, MalaysiaNow editor Muhammad Abd Ar-Rahman Koya and MNow Media Sdn Bhd.
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