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Hong Kong Case Law

Successive short-term detention orders
  • 29 Nov 1993

    ATTORNEY GENERAL v. PHAM THI XA

    Citation
    ATTORNEY GENERAL v. PHAM THI XA
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMP3371/1993

    The court exercised its discretion to grant further short-term detention orders under s32(4)(b) for all respondents except three specified individuals, on the basis that (1) valid s13E(1) and s32(4)(a) orders were in place or assumed for the exercise of discretion, (2) the Crown demonstrated that the respondents' evidence is sufficiently important to the integrity of an exceptionally long and serious criminal trial and likely to be required within a reasonable time (estimated within c.18 weeks), and (3) the public interest in the administration of justice outweighed the respondents' interest…