Read the full judgment text of CACC 000523/2002 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 21 August 2003.
1. On 6 September 2002, the applicant, Chan Nai Tak, was convicted after trial before Deputy Judge Smout in the District Court on 11 counts of conspiracy to defraud. The applicant was jointly charged with two other defendants, Yuen Choi Fung and Chan Chi Kwong. Yuen and Chan were, respectively, the 1st and 3rd defendants at the trial and we will refer to them simply as D1 and D3. The applicant was the 4th defendant. The 11 charges were the 17th to 27th charges in the trial. The 1st to 16th charg