Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000609/2000 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 22 August 2000.
1. The appellant was charged with a total of five offences, four alleged that she had lived on the earnings of prostitution and one related to her having kept the premises in question as a vice establishment, contrary to section 139(1)(a) of the Crimes Ordinance. The appellant pleaded not guilty to all these. After the trial, she was convicted of the offence of keeping a vice establishment and was acquitted of the other charges. The learned magistrate sentenced her to 18 months of imprisonment.