Senior lawyer gets increased damages in defamation suit


KUALA LUMPUR: A senior lawyer, who was wrongly accused of sodomising a security guard, succeeded in his bid to increase his damages to RM150,000 in a defamation and a mistaken identity case against the police and the government.

However, lawyer Anthony Fernandez, 60, contended that the amount was inadequate over his prolonged mental anguish.

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