Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000249/1987 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. We dealt with these two appeals together because they raise the same point of law, namely, whether a magistrate has jurisdiction to “activate” a suspended sentence in the exercise of his powers under s.109C of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, Cap.221, with the result that the defendant is ordered to serve terms of imprisonment which, in aggregate, exceed the limit of three years set by the proviso; to s.57 of the Magistrates Ordinance, Cap.227. We are concerned with the powers or permanent m