Read the full judgment text of HCMA 429/2012 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 31 October 2012.
1. The 1 st and 2 nd Appellants are father and son respectively. I will refer to them as “the father” and the “the son” respectively. The charge sheet gives the father’s age as 60 and the son as 29. They were jointly tried in the Magistrates’ Court for the offence of assault occasioning actual bodily harm against a man in his mid-40s, one Mr Lau Ting-zhung, in a street in North Point on 6 January this year. The father was convicted of the lesser offence of common assault while the son was convic