Read the full judgment text of CACV 000276/2005 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 10 March 2006.
1. The plaintiff, Mr. Chan Sze Ki, is a detective inspector with the Hong Kong Police Force (‘the Police’). On 24 April 1992, he was leading two teams of police officers to conduct a raid at an address in Li Tak Street in Tai Kok Tsui, Kowloon (‘the premises’). His immediate supervising officer and the commander in charge of the raid was Mr. Trevor John Oakes (‘Mr. Oakes’), the 2 nd defendant, who was then a superintendent with the Police but had since retired from it.