Read the full judgment text of FACC 19/2018 on BabelCite. This FACC judgment was delivered on 31 January 2019.
1. This appeal concerns the mental element of the offence under section 37(a) of the Crimes Ordinance [1] (set out below), which makes it an offence to make a false declaration to obtain registration for carrying on a vocation. The section requires that the defendant “knows” the declaration “to be false or fraudulent” and the appeal raises the questions: (a) what, as a matter of law, must a defendant know in order to be guilty of the offence; and (b) did the appellant in this case have the nece
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