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Hong Kong Case Law

Defences: truth and justification
  • 8 Jan 2007

    HKSAR V. PEARCE, MATT JAMES

    Citation
    HKSAR V. PEARCE, MATT JAMES
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMA635/2006

    The application for a certificate was dismissed because the claimed points were not arguable as questions of law of great and general public importance: the offences' ingredients are statutory and long established and the asserted constitutional challenge did not reach a tenable or arguable position given the requisite balance between public order and the right to demonstrate.