Hong Kong Case Law

3 Apr 2025

香港特別行政區 訴 歐曜榮

Citation

[2025] HKCFI 1227

Court

Court of First Instance

Case number

HCMA496/2023

Because the appellant's medical causation defence was plausible and led to the conviction being quashed on appeal, and because the prosecution did not object to the medical evidence at trial or seek to challenge it, the appellant was not guilty of conduct amounting to 'self-admission' that would disentitle him to costs; accordingly costs for the trial and the appeal were awarded and one senior counsel certificate was allowed while a second was refused.

• Dangerous driving causing serious injury
• Costs entitlement for acquitted defendants
• Disclosure and timing of medical evidence
• Allocation of senior counsel fees
• Exercise of judicial discretion on costs