Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000802/2002 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 17 March 2003.
1. The appellant was charged with common assault. He was tried by Ms Woo Huey Fang at Shatin Magistracy on 18 July 2002. At the end of the trial, the magistrate acquitted the appellant of the charge but she decided, having heard the evidence, that the appellant should be bound over in the sum of $1,000 to keep the peace for the period of one year. The appellant did not consent to the making of the binding-over order. In her Statement of Findings, the magistrate said that in view of the history b