Read the full judgment text of CACC 001047/1981 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 12 March 1982.
1. The Appellant in this case was summoned as a prosecution witness - and apparently as the principal and indispensable prosecution witness - in a careless driving case. On entering the witness box he declared himself to be a Christian but refused, on allegedly conscientious religious grounds, either to take the oath or to affirm in the form laid down in section 7(3) of the Oaths and Declarations Ordinance (Cap. 11 of the multitudinous Laws of Hong Kong). He offered to make a statement in a form