Read the full judgment text of CACV 000183/2005 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 14 March 2006.
1. This appeal from the decision of HH Judge Lok in the District Court, although in form a civil appeal, derives from criminal proceedings. The principal question for our determination (there are other issues which I shall presently identify) is this : where a convicted person in criminal proceedings has paid money into court as a condition of his having been granted bail (in other words, cash bail), what, if any, priority does section 73(3) of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, Cap.221 (“the CP