Read the full judgment text of CAAR 000013/1976 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. It is well known that the offence of possession for the purpose of trade or business of pirated cassette tapes and gramophone records is extremely prevalent in Hong Kong. What the Attorney General here seeks are guidelines from this Court, for the benefit of magistrates, as to the scale of penalty which should normally be applicable. Any such guidelines can only be broad for the reason that in this type of offence, as in most others, the facts as well as the circumstances of the offender vary