Read the full judgment text of CACC 000465/1978 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. This is the second appeal before me this morning in which a question has arisen out of the purported exercise of his powers by a magistrate in dealing with a charge under section 33 of the Public Order Ordinance Cap. 245 of the Laws of Hong Kong. In each case the offender was sentenced to a period of detention in a detention centre. In each case that order was intended to cover convictions upon two separate offences of which one only was an offence under section 33. In Criminal Appeal No. 466