Read the full judgment text of CACC 000176/1996 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 4 October 1996.
1. In this matter the applicant faced one count of trafficking in a dangerous drug which was particularized that he, on 16th May 1995, inside the male toilet at the Lucky House Seafood Restaurant in Tai Kok Tsui, unlawfully trafficked in a dangerous drug, namely 469.25 grammes of a crystalline solid containing 416.89 grammes of methamphetamine hydrochloride. This is a drug which is commonly known as "ice". He pleaded guilty to that charge but not until the second day of the trial after a number