Read the full judgment text of CACC 000187/2000 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 8 June 2000.
1. On 13 October 1997, the applicant pleaded guilty before Judge H.C. Wong in the District Court to one charge of theft. He was sentenced to 6 months' imprisonment, suspended for 2 years plus a fine of $2,000. We are only concerned with the partial activation of the suspended sentence on 5th May, 2000. The facts of the theft are not material and we do not need to refer to them. What happened subsequent to the suspended sentence is usefully set out in a chronology prepared by Mr. Alex Lee, Counse