Colonial Attorney General has the power to file informations, and also the relation when the Attorney General reverses the acting attorney general, and the power of the latter officer.
For the third part, it was wrong. It seems to me to justify a memorandum to the Treasury that they should in future consult the Solicitor General before taking necessary steps to apply for special leave to appeal.
I may further question whether the condemning of the Crown to pay costs was correct. The Chief Justice was right in deciding that the statement was not a libel.
As regards this latter point, because this action does not appear to have been the ground upon which he decided against the Crown, it was treated as extra-judicial.
I must report that the Court of Appeal's judgment in an action against a newspaper was made on the advice of the HK Attorney General. He has since retired.
In a Portuguese case, JM reported...
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