27 Jun 1989
THE QUEEN v. LOK MAN CHIU
- Citation
- THE QUEEN v. LOK MAN CHIU
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC500/1988
Under s.83XX Cap.221 the Court has an unfettered discretion to award costs from public revenue to successful appellants and the normal practice is to make such awards unless there are positive reasons to refuse (eg appellant conduct creating suspicion or misleading the prosecution, or quashings on meritless technicalities); no criminal standard of proof is required to refuse costs; costs for proceedings in each court must be considered separately; applying those principles, costs were awarded to Kwok and Lok as specified.