Reply to the Remarks of the Honourable Chief Justice Geoffrey Ma on ‘Duties owed to the court: fact, fiction and continuing relevance’

Her Honour analyses how courts in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Australia have defined and applied the prosecutor’s duty to the court in criminal and civil enforcement proceedings with reference to various cases. Her Honour emphasises the paramountcy of the duty which prosecutors owe to the court. Her Honour explains that in the criminal context, a prosecutor’s duty to the court involves providing a defendant with access to a fair trial.