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Aaron v Cheong Yip Seng

Aaron Anne Joseph and others v Cheong Yip Seng and others [1996] 1 SLR(R) 258; [1996] 1 SLR 623
JurisdictionSingapore
CourtCourt of Appeal of Singapore
Year1996
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

At common law qualified privilege protects a publication only where the publisher has a duty (legal, social or moral) to communicate the matter and the recipient a corresponding interest in receiving it; for publication to the world at large that reciprocity arises only on 'special facts' in extreme cases.

Area of Law

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