23 Oct 2020
TONG YING KIT v. HKSAR
- Citation
- [2020] HKCFI 2688
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCAL1601/2020
The court held that it has jurisdiction to award costs in habeas corpus proceedings of this kind and exercised its discretion to order the applicant to pay the respondent's costs for the habeas corpus application (Order Nisi made absolute), but declined to order indemnity costs because the application raised novel and significant public law issues under the National Security Law and the arguments were not so devoid of merit as to justify indemnity costs; the two summonses were dismissed and there was no order as to the costs of those summonses or the hearing of 19 October 2020, and the applic…