Read the full judgment text of CACC 001241/1977 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. This appeal is against a sentence of five years' imprisonment on a charge of using an instrument with intent to procure miscarriage. The appellant, a woman, came to Hong Kong from China in 1962 and, it being said that she received some training as a medical practitioner in China, has practised medicine in Hong Kong since that time. Her counsel has suggested that she is not a professional abortionist whilst conceding that she is by no means an amateur; her counsel would place her in the catego