Read the full judgment text of CACC 000070/1990 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 1 August 1990.
1. This is an application for leave to appeal against conviction on a charge of blackmail. The facts of the case, insofar as relevant to this applicant who was one of eight persons charged, was that on the 26th June, 1989 he went to office premises in Shatin together with the other seven. One of them, the 3rd accused in the trial, was the leader of this group and the object of the visit was to try to recover a debt which was alleged to be owed to the 3rd accused by a Mr. Tse. The group arrived,