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1. By leave the Attorney General applied for review of a sentence of a fine of $5,000 for an offence of managing a vice establishment contrary to s.139(b) of the Crimes Ordinance. The magistrate declined to activate a suspended sentence of three months' imprisonment for a previous offence of assisting in the management of a vice establishment contrary to the same provision. The Attorney General contended that the sentence for the new offence was manifestly inadequate and wrong in principle and t