Read the full judgment text of CACC 000292/1999 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 17 August 1999.
1. The applicant, Chin Pak-man, pleaded guilty before Deputy Judge Li in the District Court on 3 February 1999 to two charges. The first was of burglary, and the second charge that of being in Hong Kong without the authority of the Director of Immigration having landed unlawfully. He was convicted and sentenced to 2 years on the first charge, and to 15 months on the second charge, 10 months of which was to run consecutively to the sentence on the first charge, making a total of 2 years and 10 mo