Alleged violation of Joseph Lau’s privacy case to be heard in October

The hearing for the case of Hong Kong media outlet Apple Daily’s alleged violation of the privacy ordinance by publishing tycoon Joseph Lau Luen Hung’s medical records will be held on October 12, Hong Kong’s Chinese-language media reported.
The prosecution for Lau said that five witnesses will give evidence in the case, with two from Macau.
Apple Daily newspaper and its former chief editor, Cheung Kim Hung, were accused of publishing Lau’s medical records on April 30 2013, following Lau’s absence from Macau’s Court of First Instance, where he was to stand trial on bribery and money laundering charges, citing illness.
Macau’s Court of Second Instance ruled last month that Lau and fellow Hong Kong businessman Steven Lo Kit Sing’s grounds of appeal against them having been found guilty of bribing former Public Works Secretary Ao Man Long had failed. Each were sentenced in March last year by the Court of First Instance to five years and three months in jail.