Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000942/2001 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 2 November 2001.
1. This is a case stated pursuant to the Appellant's application made under section 105 of the Magistrates Ordinance, Cap.227 arising from the magistrate's acquittal of the four Respondents of offences contrary to section 8(1)(a) of the Water Pollution Control Ordinance. The 1st Respondent was charged as the discharger of polluting matter, and the 2nd through to the 4th Respondents as the occupiers of premises from which the polluting matter was discharged into a river bounded by or running thro