THE Legal Department is to appeal against an order to pay costs following a judicial review which overturned the verdicts on the deaths of two engineers in the Castle Peak power station explosion in August 1992.
A High Court hearing will be held before Mr Justice Liu on March 7.
He ordered Coroner Warner Banks to pay costs after counsel for the station's owners and operators persuaded him that death by accident was the appropriate verdict.
Mr Banks was cited because he presided over the inquest but his costs would be indemnified by the Legal Department.
The decision marked yet another twist in the ongoing Castle Peak blast saga. The jury at the original inquest returned verdicts of accidental death. Then it was found that certain company reports into the blast were not made available to them, and the inquest was re-opened.
The jury then returned verdicts of death by lack of care. These verdicts were overturned at a judicial review last month and the original verdicts restored.