Read the full judgment text of CACC 000283/1982 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 8 April 1982.
1. The appellant was tried, found guilty and convicted by a magistrate of having committed an offence against section 4(2)(a) of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance Cap. 201 in that being a public servant, an Assistant Prison Officer of the Prisons Department, and without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, he accepted an advantage, namely, the sum of $2,000 from one Kwok Wai-hung as an inducement to or reward for or otherwise on account of his performing an act in his capacity as a public se