Aaron and Others v Cheong Yip Seng and Others

JurisdictionSingapore
Judgment Date27 February 1996
Date27 February 1996
Docket NumberCivil Appeal No 63 of 1995
CourtCourt of Appeal (Singapore)

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    ...submitted that the general test of whether particular words are defamatory is set out by the Court of Appeal in Aaron v Cheong Yip Seng [1996] 1 SLR 623 (“Aaron”), adopting the views of Lord Atkin in Sim v Stretch (1936) 52 TLR 669, as follows (at … [W]hether words are defamatory must be de......
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  • Administrative and Constitutional Law
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    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2008, December 2008
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    ...recognize an interest in the public strong enough to give rise generally to a duty to communicate in the press’: Aaron v Cheong Yip Seng[1996] 1 SLR 623 at 651—652, quoted in Review Publishing, at [179]. This test to be satisfied was an ‘onerous one’ as L P Thean JA noted in Chen Cheng v Ce......
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