Read the full judgment text of HCCC 000292/1982 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. These are applications for costs against the Crown brought by Messrs. Ng Yui-kin, Ho Yim-pun and John Coull following their acquittal on charges of manslaughter; They are made pursuant to Section 73A of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance. This section was enacted in 1978, possibly because of a decision by Mr. Commissioner O'Connor, as he then was, in R.v. Chu Kwan-kong and ors. 1977 H.K.L.R. 371, where he found that there was then no jurisdiction to award costs in criminal cases in the High Cou