Read the full judgment text of CACV 000246/2004 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 24 May 2005.
1. This was an appeal under section 13 of the Legal Practitioners Ordinance, Cap. 159 (“the Ordinance”) from a decision of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal dated 26 July 2004. The solicitor had been found guilty of breaching section 8AA of the Ordinance in failing to produce or deliver to inspectors appointed by the Council of the Law Society various documents in his firm’s possession. The Tribunal ordered that the solicitor should be censured and fined $100,000. The Tribunal also ordered