Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000107/1992 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 1 April 1992.
1. This is an appeal against sentence by LO Hok-yee who ran a shop and when it was raided a number of pornographic videos were seized. He appeared before the Magistrate and should have pleaded guilty but did not. Eventually he was convicted and he was fined for some copyright offences, $5,000 on each charge. Although there is no appeal against that sentence, it is a wrong practice of the Magistrate to seek to utilize the amount of bail money as the method of determining the appropriate penalty i