16 Jan 2015
HKSAR v. PANG HUNG FAI
- Citation
- HKSAR v. PANG HUNG FAI
- Court
- Court of Final Appeal
- Case number
- FACC8/2013
Although acquittal ordinarily attracts costs, the court deprived the appellant of trial costs because his conduct invited suspicion sufficient to justify departing from the general rule; separately, the appeals were not of such exceptional difficulty to warrant certificates for more than two counsel, so the appellant's application to vary the costs order nisi was dismissed and the order nisi made absolute.