Read the full judgment text of CACC 347/2015 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 2 March 2016.
1. The applicant appeared before District Judge G Lam (“the judge”) on 14 September 2015 and pleaded guilty to one charge of obtaining property by deception, contrary to section 17(1) of the Theft Ordinance, Cap 210. On the same day he was sentenced to 20 months’ imprisonment. He subsequently applied for leave to appeal against this sentence and at the hearing of his application I refused it and said I would give my reasons for doing so at a later date. This I now do.