Read the full judgment text of FAMC 000033/2004 on BabelCite. This FAMC judgment was delivered on 24 September 2004.
1. The applicant was, after a trial before a judge and jury which was conducted in Chinese, convicted of trafficking in a large quantity of ice. His application for leave to appeal to the Court of Appeal was dismissed. In seeking leave from this Committee to appeal to the Court of Final Appeal, the applicant criticizes the trial judge’s summing up in relation to the standard of proof, more specifically on the meaning of “reasonable doubt”.