Ruling concerned Judge Eddie Yip’s order that barrister compensate fellow lawyers for being 10 minutes late to trial due to rainstorm, traffic
A Hong Kong court has ruled that a judge was wrong to order a barrister to pay HK$1,400 (US$178) in compensation to other lawyers at a criminal trial for being 10 minutes late to a hearing.
According to the appellate court’s ruling, Judge Eddie Yip Chor-man had ordered that Hui, who represented one of seven defendants in the trial, pay HK$200 each to the prosecution and counsel representing the remaining accused within a month, totalling HK$1,400, because he “had to perform his case management function”.
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