Read the full judgment text of CACC 000204/2005 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 13 July 2006.
1. On 20 April 2005, on being re-arraigned during the prosecution case, the applicant was convicted on his pleas of guilty by Deputy Judge Browne in the District Court of two offences of claiming to be a member of a triad society, contrary to section 20(2) of the Societies Ordinance, Cap.151, and one charge of blackmail, contrary to section 23(1) and (3) of the Theft Ordinance, Cap.210. The offences occurred over a period of three days in January 2004 and arose out of the applicant's attempts t