KOTA KINABALU: The Court of Appeal has upheld a High Court decision for an oil palm planter to pay RM100,000 in damages to former Sabah deputy chief minister Datuk Christina Liew over malicious statements he made in a viral video about her.
The three-member panel comprising Justices Datuk Abdul Karim Abdul Jalil, Datuk Abu Bakar Jais and Datuk Supang Lian unanimously found on Wednesday (June 15) that there were no merits in Leksun Injil’s appeal.
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