司法獨立是公眾利益的一歩份，言論自由亦如是，均受基本法所保障。簡單地說，法庭在審理刑事案件之時，是按控辯雙方表現而作出決定，倘若決定有不乎合法律的標準而引起社會的迴響，特別是涉及公眾利益之時，控方應主動提出上訴，糾正法庭的錯誤，這是正常的做法。而司法獨立是通過縱向式由上級法庭去糾正下級法庭的決定，因此一個司法決定並非是不可扭轉的。另一方面公眾人士，包括第四公權傳媒，均可亨受言論和報導的自由，對有關決定作出合理批評，從而對司法機關發揮監察作用，這個並非干涉司法獨立。
Public interest vs Judicial Independence
Judges are in majority of the cases responsive to the advocacy at trial. To put it simply, Department of Justice is largely responsible for handling criminal prosecution and the appeal if the outcome of which has error in law. It is rather common for a judicial decision to be challenged by way of an appeal. On the other hand, the public including the media is of course fully entitled to exercise their freedom of speech and freedom of press to comment on any outcome of a case so long as those comments are fair and proper without any ill-intent.