23 Dec 2010
SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE v. NG WAI BING AND OTHERS
- Citation
- SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE v. NG WAI BING AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP840/2010
Covert recording of witness consultations within the environs of a courtroom and withholding that material until the close of the prosecution constituted contempt because it created a real risk of undermining the administration of justice and had an immediate adverse effect on ongoing proceedings; imprisonment is the appropriate penalty, but suspension of the sentences was justified on the facts; indemnity costs are appropriate against the contemnors, and no order as to costs is made for the third respondent.