The applicant pleaded guilty on 22 April 2025 in the District Court before HH Judge A N Tse Ching (“the judge”) to four charges of dealing with property known or believed to represent proceeds of an indictable offence, contrary to section 25(1) and (3) of the Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance, Cap 455. Together the charges spanned over four years between June 2016 and August 2020. On 22 May 2025, he was sentenced by the judge to a term of 60 months’ impris
The applicant applies for leave to appeal against his sentence of 46 months’ imprisonment imposed by Deputy District Judge M Chow (the judge) following his plea of guilty to the offence of dealing with property known or believed to represent the proceeds of an indictable offence, contrary to section 25(1) and (3) of the Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance (Cap 455) (OSCO), which is commonly referred to as money laundering.
This is the applicant’s renewed application for extension of time to appeal against the decision of Deputy High Court Judge To (“the Judge”) dated 3 January 2024 ( [2024] HKCFI 66 ) refusing to extend time for him to apply for judicial review and dismissing his application for leave to apply for judicial review against the decision of 5 September 2019 of the Torture Claims Appeal Board (“the Board”). By its decision, the Board refused to allow the late filing of the applicant’s notice of app
The plaintiffs brought a claim against the defendant in DCCJ 617 of 2017. The defendant made a Sanctioned Offer under Order 22, rule 23 of the Rules of the District Court, Cap. 336H, offering $63,333.40 in full and final settlement of the plaintiffs' claim, with costs to the plaintiffs, together with non-monetary terms including a Restrictive Condition (Clause 4) preventing the plaintiffs from commencing any fresh action in relation to the facts or subject matter of the action, and a Confidentiality Condition (Clause 5) restricting disclosure of the settlement terms. The plaintiffs did not accept the offer by the deadline of 23 August 2017. The trial Judge dismissed the plaintiffs' claim. On appeal, the Court of Appeal allowed the appeal and awarded the plaintiffs damages of $41,867 with interest.
On 28 January 2026, this Court gave judgment allowing the plaintiffs’ appeal against the judgment of H H Judge Ko, Chief District Judge, dated 25 May 2023.