Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000577/1998 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 16 December 1998.
1. The appellant LAI Chi-wai appeared before Mr Timothy Jenkins, Permanent Magistrate, sitting at North Kowloon Magistracy on 8 May of this year. There he faced three charges. The first was a common assault on 7 February 1998. The second an amended charge of resisting a police officer in the execution of his duty on the same day, and the third a charge of failing to provide a specimen of breath for screening purposes, also on the same day. The appellant was represented by counsel and pleaded gui