3 Mar 2025
MA CHUN MAN v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES
- Citation
- [2025] HKCFI 915
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCAL979/2024
The court exercised its broad discretion in light of competing principles: because the case was a rolled‑up hearing with a successful leave on Ground 5 that was public‑interest‑relevant (first decided under the new Safeguarding National Security Ordinance) but the Applicant failed the reasonable arguability test on multiple other grounds and lost substantively, it was just to apportion costs; the Applicant must pay 50% of the Respondent’s costs for the leave and substantive hearing and the Respondent’s costs of the variation application, all to be taxed with a certificate of two counsel if no…