Hong Kong Case Law: Decisions & Judgments

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25 Mar 2022

LAI CHEE YING v. COMMISSIONER OF POLICE

Citation

[2022] HKCFI 886
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCMP1218/2020

The court granted limited extensions to 13 April 2022 because there was a material change in circumstances (suspension of legal visits and deterioration in the COVID-19 situation affecting the plaintiff's solicitors) that justified additional time; however, given the plaintiff's prior pattern of significant delays the court imposed an unless order to ensure compliance and awarded costs to the defendant.
10 Nov 2014

CHAU FOO CHEONG SIDNEY v. COMMISSIONER OF THE INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION

Citation

CHAU FOO CHEONG SIDNEY v. COMMISSIONER OF THE INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCMP2268/2013

On the evidence the seized documents were written instructions prepared for and in the course of obtaining legal advice and therefore attract legal professional privilege; there was no evidence of an express or implied intention by the applicant or his solicitors to waive that privilege and, applying the principle that waiver will not lightly be inferred, the ICAC must return the documents.
23 Dec 1997

KAM CHUNG HO v. HKSAR

Citation

KAM CHUNG HO v. HKSAR
Court

Court of Appeal
Case number

CACC448/1997

Although the trial judge properly exercised discretion in admitting the verbals and was not plainly wrong on that point, several misdirections—inviting speculative inferences about keyboard ownership, minimizing the significance of women’s clothing, and inviting speculation about the doormat from a photograph—cumulatively rendered the convictions unsafe; the proviso could not be invoked, and the convictions and sentences were therefore set aside.

Hong Kong Case Law

LAI CHEE YING v. COMMISSIONER OF POLICE

CHAU FOO CHEONG SIDNEY v. COMMISSIONER OF THE INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION

KAM CHUNG HO v. HKSAR