Read the full judgment text of HCMA 96/1988 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. The appellants were convicted on various charges of being moneylenders, that trading as Pak Cheung Trading and Moneylenders Company, they had accepted prohibited securities, namely bank savings account passbooks. The notices of appeal incorrectly state the convictions as being for demanding, rather than accepting. in fact the charges had been amended from demanding, to accepting. The charges are laid under section 29(5) of the Money Lenders Ordinance, Chapter 163, and regulation 12(b) of the