Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000109/2007 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 10 August 2007.
1. The appellant was convicted after trial at Kwun Tong Magistracy of two offences of “obtaining property by deception”, contrary to section 17(1) of the Theft Ordinance, Cap. 210. He was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for each offence, those sentences to run concurrently. That was a totality of sentence of three months’ imprisonment. Both charges were in substantially the same terms and for convenience I set out only the particulars of the 1 st charge :