Read the full judgment text of CACC 000645/1996 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 16 December 1997.
1. The four applicants (to whom we shall refer as D1, D2, D3 and D5) faced two charges of false imprisonment (charges 1 and 2). D5 faced two charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm (charges 3 and 4) and D3 also faced charge 4. It was alleged that they, together with four other persons, had on 12th January 1996 falsely imprisoned one Chan Tsz-choi (Charge 1) and one Fong Chin-ming (Charge 2) and that they had had on the same date at the Diamond Hill Crematorium, assaulted those persons