Read the full judgment text of HCMA 001229/1995 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 2 February 1996.
1. This was an appeal against a conviction for being a member of a triad society. It was an odd case in that the appellant who had at one stage in his life served a sentence of seven years imprisonment in Stanley for robbery had, since his release from that term of imprisonment, during which it was alleged that he had become a member of the Sun Yee On triad society, gone to Japan, performed extremely creditably academically, and was now an assistant manager with Mitsubishi Corporation, and highl