Read the full judgment text of CACC 000236/2009 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 20 November 2009.
1. This is the 3 rd defendant Lau Man-kin’s application for bail pending appeal. He was convicted after trial of a conspiracy to defraud. The amount involved was USD500,000. The offence allegedly took place between 1 March 1999 and 31 May 2000, and came to light in 2000. However, the defendants were only charged in 2008. District Judge Yuen adopted a starting point of 3½ years and gave the defendant a 70% discount for the delay in his prosecution and sentenced him to imprisonment for 12 mon
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