Judicial Commissioner Christopher Chin found that there was no clear evidence of malice in Wong's press statement on the settlement which he issued on May 9 last year.
"The impugned words do not defame the plaintiff," he said in his ruling on the state government's defamation suit against Wong on Friday .The state government had sued Wong for RM5mil, claiming that Wong had defamed it in his press statement questioning the settlement with Petronas on the state sales tax.He also said the statement would have been expected of Wong in his capacity as an elected state assemblyman.
Wong was represented by counsels George Lo, Jonathan Tay, Clement Wong, Thien Siaw Lien and Yvonne Sia. State legal counsel Datuk Seri J.C. Fong and state legal officers Adzrul Adzlan, Oliver Chua and Anisa Fadhillah Mohamed Jamel appeared for the state government.
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