Read the full judgment text of CACC 000794/1995 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 11 February 1997.
1. The applicant faced 13 charges. They involved the alleged extortion of protection money from three construction sites on Tsing Yi Island between October 1994 and March 1995. The three sites involved were the Wan Chung site, the Leighton site and the Downer-Zublin site. The Wan Chung site were involved in seven of the charges. They were charges 7 to 13, one was a charge of blackmail and the other six were charges of theft. The blackmail charge involved a demand for a protection fee by the appl