26 Mar 1968
CHAN HOI v. THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- CHAN HOI v. THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV52/1967
The court held that seizure under the Police Force Ordinance conferred only limited custody or temporary possession for a specific statutory purpose and did not extinguish the appellant's legal possessory rights; the police's disposal of the goods to a third party was an unauthorised abuse of the statutory power (trespass ab initio) and constituted conversion, entitling the appellant to judgment for the value of the goods.