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…