BREAKING / CAUGHT SPEECHLESS, CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN PUTS AMBIGA ON THE SPOT, LASHES OUT MORE INSIDIOUS CLAIMS AS DEFENCE
🏵 IN an interesting twist, the Editor-in-Chief of Sarawak Report, Clare Rewcastle Brown names former Bar Council President, Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan as her key witness. She also made more bold claims, which she claims she can corroborate with solid evidence. There are several dimensions to this development, one of which is her primary defence of the statement as having been made in good faith, as a matter of public interest. By naming Ambiga as her witness, she intends to prove that the verbal claim made during her conversations with the said witness is sufficient to be published in her capacity as a political commentator. By citing 'serious harm' as another aspect of her defence, she is also adding to this first dimension a claim that this case is invalid due to the fact that there had been no serious financial loss to the individual. She is also attempting to extricate herself from this mess by claiming that she never specifically meant the person of MP Abdul Hadi Awang, Pr...