Read the full judgment text of DCCC 000051/1982 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 19 August 1982.
1. The Defendant faces 3 charges of obtaining property by deception contrary to section 17(1) of the Theft Ordinance, Cap. 210 and one charge of attempting so to do contrary to that section and section 81(1) of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance, Cap. 1. All the charges arise out of events which took place in January this year. At that time the Defendant was an authorised clerk with a stockbroker trading on the Far East Stock Exchange. The charges against the Defendant do not, howe