Read the full judgment text of HCCC 000235/2006 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 2 February 2007.
1. This is an application for costs pursuant to the acquittal of the applicant on a single charge of publishing a false statement contrary to section 21(1) of the Theft Ordinance, Cap. 210. That acquittal came about as a consequence of the prosecution offering no evidence against the applicant. This course was followed due to the unwillingness or inability of a witness, one Kapoor, to travel to Hong Kong from India to testify. That witness would have testified under an immunity from prosecutio