12 May 1988
ATTORNEY GENERAL v. WONG CHI MING AND OTHERS
- Citation
- ATTORNEY GENERAL v. WONG CHI MING AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA140/1988
The High Court held that s.33(5) of the Public Order Ordinance must be construed to allow arrests, the issue of warrants and the remand in custody or on bail by a court even where the Attorney General's consent to prosecute has not yet been obtained, so that the Attorney General can be given reasonable time to consider consent; the Principal Magistrate erred in striking out prosecutions and in refusing adjournments and remands in the circumstances; the orders refusing adjournment and striking out the prosecutions were set aside and the cases remitted to the Principal Magistrate to be dealt wi…