19 Sept 2025
香港特別行政區 訴 梁荣策及另二人
- Citation
- [2025] HKDC 1613
- Court
- District Court
- Case number
- DCCC503/2023
The judge exercised the statutory/common‑law discretion to refuse costs to each of the third, fourth and fifth defendants because their investigatory and pre-trial conduct—including deliberate misdescription of workers' identities and roles (third defendant), initial cooperation followed by refusal to provide documents and withdrawal of a drafted witness statement (fourth defendant), and active participation in arranging and prompting workers to return overpaid wages and giving false/misleading accounts (fifth defendant)—amounted to self‑inviting suspicion or materially misled investigators,…