6 Jun 2019
RE DAVID PHILIP PANNICK QC
- Citation
- [2019] HKCFI 1469
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP487/2019
The application was allowed because the public interest in securing the assistance of an eminent constitutional counsel to address significant constitutional and public law issues outweighed opposing considerations, subject to the undertaking that the local counsel already retained would appear with him; the admission decision was later rendered academic by the consensual discontinuance of the related judicial review proceedings.