10 Jun 2021
NEXT DIGITAL LTD AND OTHERS v. COMMISSIONER OF POLICE
- Citation
- [2021] HKCFI 1677
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP1217/2020
The court dismissed the proposed amendments that seek to challenge the lawfulness of the search warrants and refused the interlocutory injunction application because (1) challenges to warrant validity are within the exclusive purview of judicial review and permitting them in private originating summonses would be an abuse of process, (2) the proposed return/irrelevance remedies require premature determination of evidential relevance in ongoing criminal (national security) investigations, and (3) injunctions against the Commissioner in his representative capacity are precluded by CPO s16; amen…