Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000750/1997 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 26 November 1997.
1. This is an appeal against conviction and sentence. The appellant pleaded guilty to an offence of employing a person not lawfully employable contrary to s.171(1) of the Immigration Ordinance, Cap.115. The grounds of appeal against conviction are that the appellant's plea was a nullity because the seriousness of the charge had been misrepresented to him and he has been deprived of a free choice of plea. The plea thus was involuntary and in all the circumstances the conviction is unsafe and unsa