KUCHING: The defamation suit filed by entrepreneurs Tan Sri Datuk Amar Leonard Linggi Jugah, Datuk Alexander Nanta Linggi, Greame Iaan Brown, Asian Plantations (Sarawak) Sdn Bhd, Keresa Plantations Sdn Bhd and Rajang Wood Sdn Bhd against journalist Clare Rewcastle Brown is still on-going in the High Court.
On Monday, the High Court only struck out the plaintiffs’ application for interlocutory injunction and not the whole suit as reported in an earlier article.
Rewcastle is associated with Sarawak Report and Radio Free Sarawak.
The application for interlocutory injunction was withdrawn by the counsels for the plaintiffs because the matter has already been decided by the court and based on the doctrine of Res Judicata, once the issue has been adjudicated litigant parties are barred from raising the same issue arising from the same suit.
The defamation suit was filed by the plaintiffs following an article published in Sarawak Report on May 1 entittled ‘Dirty Dayak Datuks-BNs crony candidates’.