Read the full judgment text of CACC 000587/1979 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 9 July 1979.
1. The appellant is convicted of the offence of accepting an advantage contrary to Section 3 of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance. Sometime last year he accepted a loan of $3,000 from a dancing hostess. The dancing hostess had to borrow this sum of $3,000 from the ballroom in which she worked in order to lend it to the appellant. The reason why she lent the sum to the appellant was that she was in good terms with him, thinking that the appellant was unmarried. Presumably she had the prospect o