Read the full judgment text of HCMA 581/2012 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 15 January 2013.
1. The Appellant is a woman in her mid-forties. She was convicted after trial in the Magistrates’ Court on a charge of common assault, the particulars of which were that on 2 December 2011, inside a Resource Room at Tai Lam Centre for woman, she assaulted a Correctional Services Officer by the name of Fok. The Appellant was in that Centre serving a sentence of 22 years and 6 months’ imprisonment passed on her in 2009 for drug trafficking. For the assault of which she was convicted, the Appellant