Read the full judgment text of CACC 000206/1985 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 29 October 1985.
1. This is a strange and unhappy case. The applicant, LAU Yui-on, a man of sixty years of age, lived with his wife, HUI Siu-mui, in Room 755 on the 6th floor of Fai Wah House, Lok Wah Estate, Kowloon. Madam Hui's mother, NG Kam-wan, had been living with them in these confined circumstances since 1976. At the time of the events to which the charges relate she was an old lady of 82 years.