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1. On 2 June 2017, we handed down our judgment granting the application of the respondents to stay the publication of two decisions of the Disciplinary Committee of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (“the Institute”) until the final determination of the appeal from the decisions. There was no dispute at the conclusion of the hearing that costs of the application should follow the event. Accordingly, we made an order that the Registrar of the Institute (“the Registrar”) shou