Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000355/2002 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 25 July 2002.
1. This is an appeal against a magistrate's order to pay HK$3,000.00 wasted costs. The facts of the case are set out very fully in the submission of Miss Ho in her letter dated 18 July 2002. Suffice it to say that the Appellant, being counsel assigned to appear on behalf of a Defendant in the Magistrate's Court, had, at the trial, informed the Magistrate that he had a part-heard case in the District Court on the same day in April that the magistrate was so adjourned the case part-heard to. Mr Sh