7 Nov 1977
CLIFFORD WONG CHUN-FAI v. ATTORNEY GENERAL
- Citation
- CLIFFORD WONG CHUN-FAI v. ATTORNEY GENERAL
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV43/1977
The combined statutory scheme of the Magistrates' Ordinance (ss.88-90) and the District Court Ordinance (including s.6 and s.75) manifested the Legislature's clear intent to make transfer to the District Court mandatory on the Attorney General's application for indictable offences, thereby removing the common law right to trial by jury in respect of offences so transferred; the Attorney General's exercise of that statutory discretion was not shown to be unlawful or tainted by improper motive and certiorari was therefore not available to quash transfers of the indictable charges, though the er…