Read the full judgment text of FAMC 000014/2001 on BabelCite. This FAMC judgment was delivered on 19 September 2001.
1. This applicant seeks leave to appeal to the Court of Final Appeal against a conviction of rape. The complainant had been his domestic helper. He did not deny having intercourse with her. But he said that it was with her consent, and he suggested that her complaint of rape was made with a view to blackmailing him. He seeks leave to appeal on both limbs of s. 32(2) of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal Ordinance, Cap.484, namely the "point of law of great and general importance" limb and the "