Read the full judgment text of CACC 000355/1979 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 27 April 1979.
1. The present appellants were among some sixty-seven persons who were, on the 13th February this year, convicted of unlawful assembly by the learned magistrate sitting in Causeway Bay Magistracy. Fifty-six of those persons were given an absolute discharge with no conviction recorded. The remaining eleven were conditionally discharged and bound over in a small sum of money to keep the peace for eighteen months. The magistrate appears to have drawn the distinction upon whether the particular pers