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Hong Kong Case Law

Marine court inquiry
  • 7 Jan 1987

    PETER JOSEPH WYATT AND ANOTHER v. THE MARINE COURT

    Citation
    PETER JOSEPH WYATT AND ANOTHER v. THE MARINE COURT
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMP1317/1986

    The High Court held that the Marine Court had made serious adverse findings in specified passages that amounted to charges of concerted misconduct and that those passages were made without notice to the experts and so breached the rules of natural justice; however, the Court declined to quash parts of the published Report by certiorari (citing severability, practical and jurisdictional difficulties and the fact the Report had been sent to the Governor) and declined to grant a bare declaration because the applicants had not shown exceptional circumstances that would justify that unusual remedy…