Read the full judgment text of HCAL 79/2009 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 24 September 2009.
1. In this application for judicial review, the applicants challenge the power of a select committee of the Legislative Council to order them to attend before it to give evidence and to produce documents. The applicants maintain that the power to order witnesses to give evidence or produce documents before the Legislative Council vests only with the Council (functioning as a full body), but not with its committees; and any such attendance is to be before the Council itself but not its committee
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