2 Oct 2009
PHILIP K. H. WONG, KENNEDY Y.H. WONG & CO (a firm of solicitors) AND ANOTHER v. THE COMMISSIONER OF THE INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION
- Citation
- PHILIP K. H. WONG, KENNEDY Y.H. WONG & CO (a firm of solicitors) AND ANOTHER v. THE COMMISSIONER OF THE INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV4/2008
The Court held that judicial review proceedings can engage the court's supervisory jurisdiction to determine claims of legal professional privilege and that documents detained by the Commissioner claimed to be privileged must be the subject of a determination (here remitted to the first instance judge); the respondent may not unseal and examine such documents without that determination.