Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000934/1995 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 24 January 1996.
1. This was an appeal against a conviction for having made or caused to be made in a document furnished to an Immigration Officer a statement which the appellant knew to be false. The single point on the appeal was that the charge itself was defective in that it failed to include the words "pursuant to the Immigration Ordinance or the requirement made thereunder". This aspect of the offence was therefore never considered by the learned Magistrate. The Crown conceded the appeal on this point. I t