LAI HING alias LAI HEUNG trading as HING YIP ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING & SUPPLIER v J. CATER (sued on behalf of himself, and on behalf of and as representing J.V. Prendergast and the other officers appointed under the Independent Commission Against Corruption Ordinance Cap. 204 who together constitute the Independent Commission Against Corruption)

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1. The facts which form the background of the application before me are relatively simple and the issue between the parties is clear-cut and well defined; but what is at issue is of the greatest importance to the plaintiff and, indeed, were my decision to be against him could be disastrous for him. The disconcerting thing about these proceedings is that they should have been necessary at all. Had the Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (which Commission I shall hereafte