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1. On the 6th October last year the respondent was convicted under sections 5 and 7 of the Gambling Ordinance (Ord. 7 of 1977), that is of the offences of operating a gambling establishment and of engaging in bookmaking. Apparently she operated from her own home, a flat in King's Road, by taking telephone bets on greyhound races. She had two telephones. The learned magistrate fined her $2,000. Just over two weeks later the Attorney General applied to the same magistrate for an order directing th