13 Oct 2017
SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE v. CHAN PO YING
- Citation
- SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE v. CHAN PO YING
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP784/2015
Having found that the respondents were repeatedly warned, publicly notified and had ample opportunity to leave, and that each intentionally remained and engaged in conduct inherently likely and in fact causing prejudice to the execution of the injunction, the court held each respondent guilty of criminal contempt; mens rea requires only basic intent to perform the impugned acts and the police arrests were properly grounded in statutory police powers rather than the injunction itself.