Read the full judgment text of HCAL 000037/2007 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 20 November 2007.
1. In this judicial review application, the applicants seek to challenge the decisions of the Commissioner of Police (“the Commissioner”) to take a non-intimate sample of a swab from the mouth of each of them upon their being convicted in the Magistrates’ Courts for the offence of possession of dangerous drugs on the basis that it is an unlawful exercise of the power under section 59E of the Police Force Ordinance, cap.232. The applicants’ argument is that the power to take a non-intimate sampl