Read the full judgment text of CACC 000005/1994 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 8 March 1994.
1. This is the application of Chan Hor-nam for leave to appeal against sentence only, his application in relation to conviction having been abandoned. He was convicted by His Honour Judge Caird in the District Court on 22 November 1993 on two charges. The first, that he brought a Thai woman into Hong Kong in 1991 for the purpose of prostitution, contrary to section 129(1) of the Crimes Ordinance; the second, that between November 1991 and 12 February 1993 he lived on the earnings of the prostitu