Read the full judgment text of HCMA 001055/2006 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 20 March 2007.
1. This is an appeal against a sentence of 2 weeks’ imprisonment, which was imposed upon the Appellant for operating unlawful gambling in a street, contrary to section 13(1) of the Gambling Ordinance. He was operating a game of “pai ka” in a small public park near a market where the players were mostly, what one might describe as, old boys, a substantial number of them being pensioners.