10 Jun 2021
LAI KIN YANG TIMOTHY v. COMMISSIONER OF POLICE
- Citation
- [2021] HKCFI 1677
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP1239/2020
Amendment summonses introducing public law challenges to the lawfulness of search warrants, and prayers for return of seized materials based on irrelevance and for injunctive relief, were dismissed as beyond the jurisdiction of these originating summons proceedings and as an abuse of process under the exclusivity principle; the court permitted amendments relating to private law claims for trespass/conversion/detinue (which the Commissioner did not oppose); the interlocutory injunction (HCMP1217) was dismissed and s16 CPO precludes granting injunctions against the Crown in these private procee…