21 May 1985
RE NGAI KIN-WAH
- Citation
- RE NGAI KIN-WAH
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP1093/1985
The decision was quashed because two combined legal defects—serious non‑disclosure of earlier statements of the only material witness (breach of rule 7(c)) that may have prejudiced cross‑examination, and an express misdirection on the face of the record in which the adjudicator treated the applicant's failure to give evidence as corroborative of guilt—amounted to denial of a fair hearing and an error of law warranting certiorari and mandamus for a re‑hearing de novo.