Read the full judgment text of FAMC 000017/2008 on BabelCite. This FAMC judgment was delivered on 17 June 2008.
1. It is argued that the 1st applicant was raising a claim of right and that this required a direction to the jury going beyond a Ghosh direction on dishonesty. As the Appeal Committee held in Chan Boon Ning v. HKSAR (2004) 7 HKCFAR 439, there is no inconsistency between the Ghosh direction and a claim of right, the latter being one instance of what does not constitute dishonesty. The issue here was simply whether the 1st applicant’s conduct was dishonest in the light of his evidence, an issue