Read the full judgment text of CACC 000178/1978 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 19 January 1979.
1. This appeal has been argued in the first instance upon a short point, whether upon a charge under section 10(1)(a) of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance it can be a sufficient explanation in whole or in part of a standard of living not commensurate with the defendant's present or past official emoluments that that standard of living was maintained with the aid of an advantage accepted in contravention of section 3 of the Ordinance. In the present case it is common ground that the Appellant w