Read the full judgment text of CACC 000016/1994 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 7 July 1995.
1. The applicant faced three charges of theft and one of false accounting. He was convicted on all charges after trial in the District Court before H.H. Judge Kilgour. The first charge of theft alleged that on 18th December 1987, he stole a chose in action, namely a debt in the sum of $500,000 Hong Kong currency owing to Finehing Limited by the Bank of Credit and Commerce Hong Kong Limited the property of Finehing. The second charge alleged that he stole a similar chose in action in the same amo