Read the full judgment text of CAAR 4/2017 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 4 April 2019.
1. On 8 June 2017, the respondent pleaded guilty before Mr Jacky Ip, a Deputy Magistrate (as he then was) (“the magistrate”) to a charge of cruelty to animals, contrary to section 3(1)(a) of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Ordinance [1] . The magistrate adopted a starting point of four months’ imprisonment which he reduced to three months after giving a one-quarter discount for the respondent’s guilty plea. On 7 August 2017, upon the prosecution’s application for a review of sentence, the
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