Read the full judgment text of CACC 000299/2000 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 20 December 2000.
1. On 16 June 2000, the Applicant (D3) pleaded guilty in the District Court before Judge Davies to a charge of attempting to obtain property by deception contrary to section 17(1) of the Theft Ordinance, Cap. 210 and section 159G of the Crimes Ordinance, Cap. 200. On the following day, he was sentenced with his co-defendants (D1 and D2) on this charge to a term of two years and eight months' imprisonment against which D3 now seeks leave to appeal. For reasons which we shall turn to later, the Ap