3 May 1989
THE QUEEN v. SOMCHAI LIANGSIRIPRASERT
- Citation
- THE QUEEN v. SOMCHAI LIANGSIRIPRASERT
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP300/1989
The habeas corpus application was dismissed because the magistrate had before him sufficient prima facie evidence that the applicant committed the listed extradition offences (conspiracy, trafficking, importation, preparatory acts); the High Court must apply a Wednesbury/reasonableness standard and may only interfere if no evidence supported committal, and here a reasonable magistrate properly directed could have reached the committal decision; the defendants' visit to Hong Kong was an act in furtherance of the conspiracy giving Hong Kong jurisdiction, and undercover agents were not treated a…