Read the full judgment text of HCMA 001694/1988 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 21 June 1990.
1. On 17 November 1988 at Fanling Magistrate's Court Madam Chau Ping pleaded guilty to three charges of petty theft from grocer's shops in Sheung Shui and Yuen Long in the New Territories. Two offences had taken place on the 9th of that month and one, while she was on bail, on the 15th. It was brought to the knowledge of Mr Paterson-Todd, the presiding magistrate, that this lady had a string of previous and similar convictions and was in breach of the conditions of two suspended sentences. Sh