Secretary for Justice v. Wong Ho Ming

Read the full judgment text of CACV 259/2017 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 23 January 2018.

1. On 23 January 2018, we refused bail pending appeal for want of reasonably arguable grounds of appeal.  We reserved our reasons.

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Case No.CACV 259/2017[2018] HKCA 174
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Court of Appeal
Date23 Jan 2018
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Case Document
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CACV 259/2017

[2018] HKCA 174

IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

COURT OF APPEAL

CIVIL APPEAL NO 259 OF 2017

(ON APPEAL FROM HCMP 798/2015)

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BETWEEN

  SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE Applicant
  and
  WONG HO MING (黃浩銘) Respondent

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Before: Hon Cheung CJHC and Lam VP in Court

Date of Hearing: 23 January 2018

Date of Judgment: 23 January 2018

Date of Reasons for Judgment: 23 March 2018

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REASONS FOR JUDGMENT
(BAIL PENDING APPEAL)

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Hon Cheung CJHC (giving the reasons for judgment of the court):

1.On 23 January 2018, we refused bail pending appeal for want of reasonably arguable grounds of appeal.  We reserved our reasons.

2.By a judgment of even date ([2018] HKCA 173), this court (comprising also Poon JA) dismissed the respondent’s appeal with full reasons.  These reasons also explain why we found that the respondent had presented no reasonably arguable grounds of appeal when applying for bail, which we dismissed accordingly.  We also ordered costs to be in the cause of the appeal.

(Andrew Cheung)
Chief Judge of the High Court
(Johnson Lam)
Vice President

Mr Jin Pao, instructed by the Department of Justice, for the applicant

Mr Martin Lee SC, Mr Hectar Pun SC, Mr Earl Deng and Mr Anson Wong Yu Yat, instructed by JCC Cheung & Co, for the respondent