{"id":943,"date":"2023-10-03T23:08:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T15:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/?p=943"},"modified":"2023-10-05T23:25:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T15:25:38","slug":"magistrate-granted-costs-of-jurisdiction-challenge-and-trial-proper-after-acquittal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/magistrate-granted-costs-of-jurisdiction-challenge-and-trial-proper-after-acquittal\/","title":{"rendered":"Magistrate granted costs of jurisdiction challenge and trial proper after acquittal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<section class=\"section news-detail-section\" id=\"section_1509404590\">\n\t\t<div class=\"bg section-bg fill bg-fill  bg-loaded\" >\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div id=\"text-1609254784\" class=\"text breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #627A80;\nfont-family: Merriweather;\nfont-size: 13px;\nfont-style: normal;\nfont-weight: 400;\nline-height: 150%; \/* 19.5px *\/\nletter-spacing: 0.39px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/\">Home<\/a> \/ <a href=\"\/news\/\">News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_1509404590 {\n  padding-top: 0px;\n  padding-bottom: 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\t<section class=\"section news-detail-section\" id=\"section_1703447619\">\n\t\t<div class=\"bg section-bg fill bg-fill  bg-loaded\" >\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-560168545\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1654391626\" class=\"col medium-12 small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div id=\"text-4060963342\" class=\"text h3\">\n\t\t\n\n<p>Magistrate granted costs of jurisdiction challenge and trial proper after acquittal.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"text-1881738055\" class=\"text h5\">\n\t\t\n\n<p><strong>HKSAR v Law Chun Kit (\u7f85\u93ae\u5091) (No. 2)<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-1881738055 {\n  font-size: 1.25rem;\n  text-align: left;\n  color: #003d4c;\n}\n#text-1881738055 > * {\n  color: #003d4c;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"text-299222135\" class=\"text txt-bold\">\n\t\t\n\n<p>3 October 2023<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_2013263995\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/10.-Law-Chun-Kit-Costs-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/10.-Law-Chun-Kit-Costs-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/10.-Law-Chun-Kit-Costs-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/10.-Law-Chun-Kit-Costs-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/10.-Law-Chun-Kit-Costs-18x10.jpg 18w, https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/10.-Law-Chun-Kit-Costs.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_2013263995 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"gap-1769290118\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-1769290118 {\n  padding-top: 0px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #gap-1769290118 {\n    padding-top: 40px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<p>Magistrate Daniel Tang awarded the Defendant costs for, <em>inter alia<\/em>, arguing the Magistracy has no jurisdiction due to time bar, and also costs for the trial proper, after finding a hard-of-hearing youth not guilty of assaulting a police officer.<br><br>The Defendant, then 19 years old with profound and severe hearing loss in his left and right ears respectively, was charged with assaulting a police officer. The prosecution alleged that the Defendant confessed to a police constable after being arrested by saying \u201cI was impulsive and hit [the] police [officer], ah sir [I am] sorry, please give me a chance\u201d (\u6211\u4e00\u6642\u885d\u52d5\u5148\u6703\u6253\u8b66\u5bdf\uff0c\u5440sir \u5c0d\u5514\u4f4f\uff0c\u6bd4\u6b21\u6a5f\u6703\u6211). The alleged oral confession was later recorded in writing. After trial, the court found the Defendant only had a bare case to answer in the special issue proceeding (viz a proceeding determining the admissibility of confessions) and ruled the alleged oral and written confession inadmissible. After ruling out the confessions, the Magistrate further found that the Defendant only had a bare case to answer in the general issue, and subsequently acquitted him.<br><br>Prior to the commencement of the trial, the Defendant argued that the Magistracy has no jurisdiction to hear the case as the charge sheet was filed in the Magistracy almost 8 months after the Appeal Committee of the Court of Final Appeal dismissed the Defendant\u2019s application for leave to appeal against the retrial order (\u201c<b>the Time Bar Application<\/b>\u201d). s 26 of the Magistrates Ordinance (Cap 227) mandates all complaints (other than an indictable offence) must be within 6 months after the matter of such complaint arose. It was argued on the Defendant\u2019s behalf that a retrial is a fortiori and must take place as soon as practicable and, in any event, not more than the time limit applicable to a trial at first instance, otherwise a retrial of a summary offence could take place indefinitely. In other jurisdictions, namely, the England and Wales, the indictment of the retrial must be filed within 2 months from the date of the order for retrial: s 8 Criminal Appeal Act 1968. Magistrate Edward Wong refused the Defendant\u2019s application and held that the case was not time barred as s 26 of the Magistrates Ordinance only governs trial at first instance. The case was then fixed before Magistrate Daniel Tang for a 9-day trial.<br><br>In awarding the Defendant\u2019s costs, Magistrate Daniel Tang considered that it was not unreasonable for the Defendant to make the Time Bar Application. The court also awarded costs of the trial to the Defendant.<br><br>Simon So represented the defendant in the Time Bar Application and the re-trial as sole advocate. Simon had represented the Defendant in his appeal against conviction before Barnes J: [2021] HKCFI 2893; and his application for leave to appeal against the retrial order before the Appeal Committee (Ribeiro and Lam PJJ, Bokhary NPJ): FAMC 30\/2021, both as sole advocate.<\/p>\n\t<div id=\"gap-1235488007\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-1235488007 {\n  padding-top: 60px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t<div class=\"ux-menu stack stack-col justify-start ux-menu--divider-solid\">\n\t\t\n\n\t<div class=\"ux-menu-link flex menu-item menu-button-link\">\n\t\t<a class=\"ux-menu-link__link flex\" href=\"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/news\/\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ux-menu-link__text\">\n\t\t\t\tBack to News\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_1703447619 {\n  padding-top: 0px;\n  padding-bottom: 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magistrate Daniel Tang awarded the Defendant costs for, inter alia, arguing the Magistracy has no jurisdiction due to time bar, and also costs for the trial proper, after finding a hard-of-hearing youth not guilty of assaulting a police officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}