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Hong Kong Case Law

Victim protection

  • 25 Nov 2024

    CB v. COMMISSIONER OF POLICE AND ANOTHER

    Citation
    [2024] HKCA 1086
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACV208/2022

    Leave to appeal to the Court of Final Appeal is granted only on the discrete question whether the investigative failures found in this case were causally connected to the absence of specific legislation criminalising forced labour such that BOR4 requires enactment of a bespoke offence; other questions seeking alternative analytical approaches, broader scope issues or novel arguments are refused as they are subsidiary, not argued before this court, overly abstract or precluded by existing authority (ZN).

  • 3 Nov 2023

    CB v. APTHORP, BRIAN DREW

    Citation
    [2023] HKDC 1556
    Court
    District Court
    Case number
    DCPI357/2021

    Court granted a limited anonymity order because, on the facts, the interest of the private lives of the plaintiff and the foreseeable risk of further victimisation and psychological harm to the plaintiff and her daughters justified departing from the general rule of open justice; the restriction was proportionate (limited to anonymising the plaintiff's name), the writ's prior limited public disclosure and the timing did not produce prejudice to the defendant or require trial postponement, and alternatives were insufficient to protect the plaintiff's private interests.