Macau’s Court of Second Instance (TSI) has ruled that Macau’s Chinese-language weekly Son Pou does not need to pay damages of 50,000 patacas to a local developer for alleged slander.
Last Thursday’s ruling overturned a lower court decision that had imposed the payment on the newspaper.
Legal sources told The Macau Post Daily at the weekend that the plaintiff, Polytex, could not take the case to Macau’s top court, the Court of Final Appeal (TUI). The developer of the ill-fated Pearl Horizon project had claimed that several commentaries published by the newspaper had affected its good name. The company had asked for two million patacas in damages.
The two defendants in the case were earlier this year acquitted by the Court of First Instance (TJB) of defamation but ordered to pay damages.
