Read the full judgment text of CACC 000651/1996 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 11 April 1997.
1. The applicant in this matter pleaded guilty before District Judge Beeson to 16 charges. The first, one of using a false instrument particularized that he, on 4th September 1996, at "Just Gold" at 607 Nathan Road, used a gold Mastercard in the name of Peter Fisher which he knew to be false with the intention of inducing Lam Kin-wai, the shop keeper, to accept it as genuine, and by reason of so accepting it, to do something to his prejudice. The second was a charge of possession of false instru