Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000704/1998 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 30 September 1998.
1. The five Appellants were part of 15 Defendants who were convicted by Miss M. Poon sitting at Shatin Magistracy of the offence of Gambling in a Gambling Establishment. The conviction was on 16th June 1998 and the particulars of the charge are that they, together with the other Defendants, had on 24th April 1998 at a store called Cheung Wong in Fan Tin Tsuen, San Tin, Lok Ma Chau, gambled in a gambling establishment. This particular village is not one about which any evidence was given but woul