Wall Street Journal accuses Hong Kong union head of abusing legal process

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has accused the head of a Hong Kong journalists’ union of abusing the legal process by holding the newspaper criminally liable for her dismissal only after her “extortionate” HK$3 million (US$385,500) proposal for settlement was rejected. Lawyers for Dow Jones Publishing Co (Asia) told Eastern Court on Thursday that Selina Cheng Kar-yue’s complaint alleging the American news outlet violated Hong Kong labour laws was driven by private interests and bad faith. “We’re...