Read the full judgment text of HCMA 384/2013 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 19 March 2014.
1. This appellant appeals against his conviction in the Magistrates Court on a charge of indecent assault while travelling on a MTR train. The defence suggested that the alleged victim might have been touched by another man. The prosecution's own evidence was that this other man was holding on to a handrail with one hand. But the Magistrate appears to have been under the impression, by reason of what is now agreed was a misinterpretation, that this evidence was that he was holding on to the hand