High Court awards additional RM500k in damages to The Edge over suspension of publications


  • Nation
  • Wednesday, 14 Aug 2019

KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here has awarded another half a million in exemplary damages to The Edge Communications Sdn Bhd in addition to a RM11.2mil compensatory damages for loss of revenue due to the three-month suspension of its two publications by the Home Ministry in 2015.

Justice Nordin Hassan made the order here Wednesday (Aug 14) after allowing the publishing firm’s appeal for exemplary damages and awarded it RM500, 000.

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