Read the full judgment text of CACC 000389/1991 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 27 November 1991.
1. Yau Koon Yau ("the defendant") was convicted by Judge Cameron on the 5th of July this year on a charge of conspiracy to obtain property by deception. The evidence revealed fraud of a common pattern, namely to set up an apparently genuine business, in this instance a retail shoe shop, gain the confidence of wholesale suppliers by meeting liabilities for the first few purchases, then to place further and larger orders, to pay by cheques which would not be met when they became due, and finally d