Read the full judgment text of HCMA 001084/1995 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 16 February 1996.
1. This was an appeal against the conviction of an Appellant taxi-driver for without reasonable excuse not driving to a destination by the most direct practicable route. The witness for the Crown in this case was a news reporter, who, at the Airport on 13th May 1995 about 4:40 p.m., hired a taxi, and told the driver she wanted to go to the to Sing Tao Building at Kowloon Bay. She told him to take the route past the Airport Cargo Depot. He said there was a traffic jam there, and she asked him to