Monday, 03 May 2021 04:47 PM MYT
In 2018, High Court judge Judge Datuk Ahmad Zaidi Ibrahim allowed Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s defamation lawsuit against TV3 after finding that the television station had failed to practice responsible journalism when it did not seek verification on the authenticity of the news before airing it in its Buletin Utama on March 2, 2013. ― Picture by Ahmad Zamzahuri
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PUTRAJAYA, May 3 Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will only get a global sum of RM600,000 in general and aggravated damages instead of RM1.1 million in his defamation suit against TV3 for linking him to the Lahad Datu intrusion in Sabah in 2013.
PUTRAJAYA (May 3): The Court of Appeal today reduced damages which Sistem Televisyen Malaysia Bhd (TV3) and the then Media Prima Bhd and Current Affairs Radio and Television group managing director Datuk Shaharudin Abdul Latif have to pay to opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim for defamation.
From an amount of RM1.1 million for aggravated and exemplary damages ordered by the High Court, the three-member bench allowed TV3 and Shaharudin s appeal to reduce the quantum to a global sum of RM600,000.
The award is over the television station s defamatory report which accused the PKR president and Port Dickson member of Parliament of being one of the masterminds of the Lahad Datu incursion in Sabah in 2013.
Appeals court reduces damages awarded to Anwar in defamation suit against TV3 03 May 2021 / 16:44 H. Pix for illustration purposes.
PUTRAJAYA: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will only get a global sum of RM600,000 in general and aggravated damages instead of RM1.1 million in his defamation suit against TV3 for linking him to the Lahad Datu intrusion in Sabah in 2013.
This follows a decision today by a Court of Appeal three-member bench led by Justice Datuk Has Zanah Mehat to reduce the quantum of damages by setting aside the High Court’s award of RM250,000 each in aggravated and exemplary damages to the Port Dickson Member of Parliament.