The Court clarified that such requests would be examined by reference to Hong Kong law. In the present case, the request amounted to impermissible fishing.

During the appeal, the Appellants made a concession as to set-off. The Court held that the concession renders their only remaining Ground of Appeal invalid.

The Magistrate denied the unrepresented Appellant a fair trial by failing to address material inconsistencies in the prosecution witnesses’ evidence, and by failing to assist the Appellant in putting those inconsistencies to the prosecution witnesses.

The Court of First Instance rejected the Plaintiff’s attempt to rely on an account of the accident that was never disclosed until the first day of trial. The Court also found him to be an incredible and unreliable witness. 

The District Court acquitted the 2nd to 7th Defendants and convicted the 1st Defendant of riot. This was the second series of acquittals secured by Members of Denis Chang’s Chambers in relation to the protests which occurred on 31 August 2019. 

The Court of Appeal decided that a custodial sentence would not be appropriate, and sentenced the 1st and 2nd Respondents to 12 months’ probation and 80 hours of community service respectively.

This was the first case where the Hong Kong Court granted bail to a person charged under the National Security Law. The Applicant, a media tycoon, is charged with one count of fraud and one count of collusion with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security.

The Court of Appeal discharged a Prohibition Order restraining the Respondent / ex-husband from leaving Hong Kong on the ground that the travel restriction disproportionately interfered with his freedom of movement under Article 31 of the Basic Law and his common law right to work.

Former Legislative Councillor Leung Kwok-hung, also known as “Long Hair”, won his appeal against the Court of Appeal’s judgment to uphold the Correctional Service Department’s differential hair-cutting requirement for male and female inmates, prescribed in Standing Order 41-05 issued by the Commissioner of Correctional Services.

The underlying dispute concerns a property in Sai Kung which had been jointly owned by three brothers who are now all deceased. The Court of Final Appeal granted the Plaintiff/Applicant leave to appeal to the CFA on two questions of law of general or public importance as well as on the “or otherwise” basis.