Read the full judgment text of HCOA 000001/1997 on BabelCite. This HCOA judgment was delivered on 2 May 1997.
1. This is an appeal from the determination of the Obscene Articles Tribunal made on 18 January 1997 that an article published by the appellant on page 16A of its newspaper, Ming Pao Daily, on 30 June 1996, comprising of a photograph showing, inter alia, the front view of a naked woman, was indecent. The appellant was the defendant in a criminal trial at Eastern Magistracy being charged with an offence concerning publication of the said article. The principal issue for the criminal trial was whe