Read the full judgment text of CACC 000190/1999 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 12 August 1999.
1. The facts are quite simple. Two officers were patrolling inside Tip Sum House in Butterfly Estate, Tuen Mun on the 17th floor. There they noticed the applicant acting suspiciously near the rear staircase of that floor. He was outside Flat 1710 and outside the door of Flat 1709 were two other persons trying to get the door of that flat open with a hanger. When the two noticed the police, one of them alerted the others who all then fled. The police officers gave chase and managed to catch the a