[1] This is my supporting judgment to the judgment of my learned brother Nihrumala Segara MK Pillay, JCA. It is self evident that the words in the impugned letter written by the first defendant were a reiteration of the words spoken in the course of the proceedings on 13 August 1999 in the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court. According to the first defendant, he wrote the impugned letter to place on record the events of 13 August 1999 as he believed that he had a duty to do so as an officer of the Court and in the honest belief that the contents of the impugned letter were true.

[2] By sitting at the bar table (dressed in a white shirt, a tie and a black coat) and by assisting the first plaintiff in the