30 Jul 2010
WILTSHIRE TRADING LTD v. SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE AND OTHERS
- Citation
- WILTSHIRE TRADING LTD v. SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCAL17/2007
The court found the presence and limited active participation of Italian investigators in some searches occurred but did not render the warrants invalid; assistance to identify relevance fell within s12(3)'s "necessary and reasonable" assistance and the warrants were not over‑broad simply because they lacked temporal limits; post‑seizure inspection by foreign officers under Hong Kong control to inform the Secretary for Justice's decision under s12(8) was permissible; consequential procedural errors (unauthorised copying, subsequent shredding of notes) were wrong but caused no remediable preju…