00:00Today was the hearing at the Court of Appeal for the appeal to the injunction where the
00:19injunction application that was filed by Farhash was dismissed in the Shalam High Court and he
00:26had launched an appeal in the Court of Appeal and he had filed for something called an ad
00:30interim injunction which is a temporary injunction pending the disposal of the main injunction
00:36application so the court a panel of three judges sat in the Court of Appeal today hearing the
00:41application and the court has decided to dismiss the application by Farhash which means that there
00:46is no injunction against my clients MNOW and MNOW is free to publish as they deem fit the news
00:54the court stated that the reason that the injunction application the ad interim injunction
01:03application by Farhash was dismissed is because the court was bound by the decision of the Supreme
01:08Court in the case of NST and AirAsia where the court will be very reluctant to impose an injunction
01:15or to fetter the speech or to affect the freedom of expression of any person especially the
01:22media so because of that the injunction was not given and furthermore it is also a pertinent fact
01:29that the defendants my clients have also raised the defense of justification number one number two
01:34qualified privilege and number three fair comment now the fact that we have raised the defense of
01:39justification means that we are saying that whatever that was posted by Malaysia now is actually the
01:45truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth and we will prove this in the Sha'alam High Court
01:51come trial day where we will not only put in the evidence but we will also call the witnesses to come
01:57and testify to show that we are speaking the truth so basically it means we can still report
02:02yes yes yes correct go ahead basically it means we will still report so we are very happy
02:10i have nothing else to add i'm just happy
02:15okay okay all right thank you very much
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