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In April 2023, Mr Chow Ka Shing was detained at Lai Chi Kok Reception Centre. On 28 April 2023, he obtained a blank Complaint Form of the Office of the Ombudsman from CSD staff, who informed him that, after filling it out, he should notify CSD staff to conduct a security check and that he should not mail it himself, and that during the check CSD staff would not read the contents. The appellant was an assistant solicitor at Chan & Chan, the firm representing Mr Chow. On 2 May 2023, the appellant interviewed Mr Chow at the Reception Centre. During the second interview, after a logged exchange of documents, the appellant handed Mr Chow a document into which he folded and inserted his completed Complaint Form and handed it back to the appellant. The appellant placed the document with the Complaint Form inside it under a notebook, then at the end of the interview placed it all in her bag and left the Centre. The Complaint Form was mailed to the Ombudsman on 4 May 2023.

On 14 September 2021, the applicant was sentenced to 11 years and 8 months’ imprisonment by D’Almada Remedios J (the judge), following his guilty plea before a magistrate to a single charge of trafficking in dangerous drugs, namely 448.68 grammes of a crystalline solid containing 438.62 grammes of methamphetamine hydrochloride (commonly known as Ice), 34.21 grammes of a solid containing 27.75 grammes of cocaine, and 103.8 grammes of a solid containing 85.5 grammes of ketamine (Count 2) [1] .

The applicant was sentenced to 7 years and 2 months’ imprisonment by Johnny Chan J (“the judge”) in the High Court on 15 August 2024, having confirmed his plea of guilty before a magistrate on 18 March 2024 to trafficking in a dangerous drug, namely 122.63 grammes of a solid containing 95.01 grammes of cocaine, contrary to section 4(1)(a) and (3) of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Cap 134. By the time he applied for leave to appeal, he was 10 months out of time.

原告人擬上訴至終審法院，於2026年5月19日存檔提出動議通知書，向本庭申請上訴許可。

On 6 April 2020, the appellant pleaded guilty before a magistrate to a single charge of trafficking in a dangerous drug, [1] involving 626 grammes of a powder containing 501 grammes of cocaine. On 16 June 2020, he confirmed his plea before Campbell-Moffat J (the judge) and was sentenced to 12 years and 4 months’ imprisonment.

申請人經審訊後被裁定一項「有意圖而傷人」 [1] （控罪2）罪名成立，於2025年6月24日被區域法院暫委法官劉綺雲（「 原審法官 」）判入教導所。申請人不服，就判刑提出上訴許可申請。