18 Jan 2013
YIP WAH CHING AND ANOTHER v. SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE
- Citation
- YIP WAH CHING AND ANOTHER v. SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP744/2012
The court found that the applicants had published ten materially false or misleading factual statements in their election advertisement but, on the evidence, those statements were made inadvertently—based on genuine misunderstanding of government officers' comments, inexperience and mistaken beliefs rather than bad faith—and therefore relief under s31(2) was justified; accordingly the applicants were relieved from penalties and disqualifications in respect of those statements; costs were ordered against the applicants (they pay their own costs and pay the Secretary for Justice's costs to be t…