Read the full judgment text of CACC 000546/1994 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 5 May 1995.
1. Section 16 of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance provides that where an accused has been committed for trial by a magistrate, the judge may, after perusal of the documents and after hearing any representations which the accused and the Attorney General may wish to make, direct that the accused shall not be arraigned on the charge and that he shall be discharged. On 17th October 1994 Bewley J., pursuant to that section, ordered that today's respondents CHEUNG Wai-kwong and LAM Kwok-on, who had b