Read the full judgment text of CACC 001238/1976 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The appellant is in possession of a licence issued to him under the Hawker By-laws. It was a condition of that licence that he should hawk his wares only in certain appointed areas in the New Territories. Because of ill health he found it difficult to trundle his hand-cart, with the woollen goods which he was licensed to sell, from the place where he lived to his authorised place of business which was some distance away. He therefore took to hawking his wares in the immediate vicinity of his