DAP’s Lim Guan Eng wins RM50,000 in damages after a High Court ruled statements by Zuraida Kamaruddin and two others were defamatory.
SHAH ALAM: DAP advisor Lim Guan Eng has won a defamation lawsuit against former Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Zuraida Kamaruddin and two other parties.
Judicial Commissioner Shoba Menon ruled that statements made against the former finance minister were defamatory, according to his lawyer Datuk Sankara Nair.
The court found that the defendants failed to establish the legal defences they had raised in the case.
All three defendants have been ordered to pay RM50,000 in global damages to Lim.
They were also ordered to pay RM5,000 globally in costs to the plaintiff.
The court granted an injunction restraining the defendants from further publishing the defamatory statements.
Lim filed the suit at the Shah Alam High Court on June 7, 2024.
The defendants named were Zuraida, MalaysiaNow editor Muhammad Abd Ar-Rahman Koya, and MNow Media Sdn Bhd.
In his statement of claim, Lim alleged Zuraida made false statements about him regarding a housing project for former plantation staff in Bestari Jaya, Selangor.
During the proceedings, Lim was represented by counsel Maniggandan Gopalan while the defendants were represented by lawyer Nizamuddin Hamid.