Read the full judgment text of CACC 000499/1995 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 28 May 1996.
1. The Applicant was convicted of six charges in the Court below. Two of them, charges 1 and 12, were for blackmail. Charge 1 was that sometime in March, 1992, at the Tuen Mun Polyclinic he had made an unwarranted demand of $3,000 from Wong Po-wah with menaces and with a view to gain for himself. Charges 2, 19 and 20 were related to charge 1 in that they were for theft of sums of money the property of Luen Lik Construction Co. and were said to have occurred when the money demanded in charge 1 wa