10 Mar 2004
A SOLICITOR v. THE LAW SOCIETY OF HONG KONG AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- A SOLICITOR v. THE LAW SOCIETY OF HONG KONG AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of Final Appeal
- Case number
- FACV7/2003
The Court held that the appellant should have the costs of the appeal in the Court of Final Appeal and half of the costs in the Court of Appeal against the respondent, there should be no order as to costs in respect of the proceedings before the Tribunal, and there should be no order as to costs as far as the Intervener is concerned because interveners in constitutional cases are ordinarily immune from adverse costs orders absent exceptional circumstances and none existed here; further, s.25 LPO does not alter the incidence of costs between parties and the respondent, having adopted the Inter…