HIGH COURT MALAYA KUALA LUMPUR
TAN SRI DATUK NADRAJA RATNAM – Appellant
Versus
MURALI SUBRAMANIAM – Respondent
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| 1. committal proceedings arise from alleged violation of court orders. (Para 1 , 2 , 3 , 4) |
| 2. grounds for the application for committal based on defamation. (Para 5) |
| 3. the importance of the respondent's published conduct in violating court orders. (Para 10 , 11) |
[1] These are my grounds of judgment in respect of an application by the plaintiff for an order of committal against the defendant (Enclosure 126). For purposes of the committal proceedings, I shall refer to the plaintiff and defendant as "the applicant" and "the respondent", respectively. The committal proceedings were initiated about eight (8) months after the main suit (defamation) suit had been concluded. The decision of this Court in the main suit (after full trial) was delivered on 29 July 2016 ("the Order").
[2] The main suit was based on postings and comments on the respondent's Facebook account which were held to be defamatory of the applicant.
[3] The committal proceeding is predicated on the respondent's post-judgment conduct Briefly, the applicant's grounds for committal are:
a) that the respondent had disobeyed paragraph (1) of the Order by which the respondent was restrained from writing and publis
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