Read the full judgment text of CACC 000562/1994 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 26 April 1996.
1. The Applicant, who was the first Defendant in the Court below, faced 17 charges for offences which were alleged to have occurred between 26th July, 1990, and 24th August, 1990. He was convicted of 16 of them. 15 of those were for dishonestly obtaining a pecuniary advantage by false representation contrary to section 18(1) of the Theft Ordinance, Cap.210, for each of which he was sentenced to a term of imprisonment for seven years. The other, charge 11, was for uttering a forged document knowi