Read the full judgment text of CACC 000415/1976 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The Appellant was charged before the magistrate with membership of a triad society, namely the Luen Ying Sh'e Triad Society. He was not then professionally represented. He was convicted and was remanded for sentence. At the adjourned hearing Mr. Cotterill applied for a review of the conviction, a review which for some reason the magistrate thought could not be entertained until sentence had been passed, although he appears later to have resiled from that view. There were two further adjournme