Read the full judgment text of HCMP 003311/1993 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 7 October 1993.
1. This case highlights the tension which arises between the right of the Crown to be able to call all relevant evidence at the trial of persons charged with serious offences, and the right of a prosecution witness in a criminal trial to return to Vietnam without being detained any longer until it is time for him or her to give evidence. Kaplan J. and Deputy Judge Yeung dealt with a similar problem in relation to a defence witness in the same trial in Attorney General v. Pham Si Dung (MP 2626/93