THE turning point for defamation was the case involving Tan Sri Vincent Tan. He was awarded a record RM10mil in damages in 1994 in his libel case against freelance journalist M.G.G. Pillai and several others.
After that, many became gung-ho about filing defamation suits, seeing it as a new window of opportunity to make easy money.
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