Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000195/2003 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 31 July 2003.
1. On 6 March of this year the appellant (who is now aged 48) pleaded guilty at Eastern Magistrate's Court to a single offence of fraud contrary to section 16A(1)(a) of the Theft Ordinance (Cap.210) ("the Ordinance") and he was sentenced to a term of 8 months' imprisonment. It was against that sentence which he appealed and, on 31 July, I allowed the appeal by setting aside the sentence of 8 months' imprisonment, replacing it with a sentence of 6 months and suspending that sentence for a period