Read the full judgment text of HCMA 001204/1996 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 8 January 1997.
1. An undercover police agent PW1 went to Room 1509 of Hotel Nikko and made a phone call to a man called Ip who told him that underage girls were available for prostitution at a price of $1,500. The witness gave Ip his room number. Some 35 minutes later the appellant came to the witness' room and identified himself as Ip with whom the witness had had conversation over the phone. The appellant told the witness he came up to ensure it was not a police operation and that for $1,500 the girl would p