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Hong Kong Case Law

Gagging/anti-tipping-off orders
  • 25 May 2020

    X AND ANOTHER v. Z

    Citation
    [2020] HKCFI 826
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCA414/2020

    Although the ex parte order involved material non-disclosure by the applicants which was in significant part deliberate, the judge found a continuing real risk of serious and irreparable harm to the 1st plaintiff from threatened publication and harassment. On balance of convenience and in the exercise of judicial discretion the court set aside the original ex parte order but re-granted limited inter partes interim relief restraining the defendant from harassing or intimidating the 1st plaintiff, preserving relevant materials, continuing anonymity and gagging orders until further order, fixed…