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41 lines
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plaintiff:
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- Commissioner for Television and Entertainment Licensing Authority
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defendant:
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- Oriental Daily Publisher Limited
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- The Sun News Publisher Limited
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jurisdiction_code: null
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jurisdiction_name: null
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case_location:
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- 香港特別行政區
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- Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
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case_reason: >-
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Plaintiff, a celebrity couple, claims damages from defendants for the publication of photographs in
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newspapers that they argue are indecent and cause distress.
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case_object:
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- distress damages
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judgment_result:
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- charge: Indecency of the Oriental article (liability issue)
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result: Allowed. The court found that the photographs were given prominent effect and showed a half-naked
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body of a model, which is indecent.
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- charge: Indecency of the Sun article (liability issue)
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result: Allowed. Similar findings as for the Oriental article, with the same reasons provided.
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judgment_summary: >-
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The case involves a celebrity couple suing Oriental Daily Publisher Limited and The Sun News Publisher
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Limited for publishing indecent photographs that caused them distress. The court found both defendants
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liable, as the photographs showed half-naked bodies of models prominently displayed without proper context.
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Evidence regarding editorial intentions was deemed irrelevant. Key legal points included the irrelevance
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of previous non-indecent classifications and the focus on the final product's ind
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involved_entities:
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- entity_name: Mr W LEUNG Esq
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reason: Presiding Magistrate in OAT Tribunal
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- entity_name: Ms LAM Koon-kun and Mr Tse Wun-shuen, Edward
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reason: Adjudicators in the case
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- entity_name: Miss Agnes Chan, SGC
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reason: Counsel for the Television and Entertainment Licensing Authority (TELA)
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- entity_name: Mr Cheng Huan and Mr Paul Leung, instructed by Messrs Iu, Lai & Li
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reason: Counsel for the defendants (Oriental Daily Publisher Limited and The Sun News Publisher Limited)
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- entity_name: Oriental Daily Publisher Limited
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reason: Defendant in the case
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- entity_name: The Sun News Publisher Limited
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reason: Defendant in the case
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