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Hong Kong Case Law

Surveillance and covert recording
  • 29 Jul 2010

    HKSAR v. KO KIT AND ANOTHER

    Citation
    HKSAR v. KO KIT AND ANOTHER
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC65/2009

    The appellate court upheld the trial judge: the ICAC's recording of the 13‑minute solicitor meeting was an inadvertent by‑product of authorised long‑term surveillance conducted with DOJ advice, the officers acted in good faith and took steps to secure the recording; the subsequent handling (transcription/translation and disclosure in the unused material) did not amount to such an affront to the public conscience as to justify the exceptional remedy of a permanent stay; the trial judge's adverse inferences from extensive circumstantial evidence were open to him and did not constitute an error…