20 Jun 1973
WILLIAM KWAN CHEUK-YIN AND ANOTHER v. THE QUEEN
- Citation
- WILLIAM KWAN CHEUK-YIN AND ANOTHER v. THE QUEEN
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC75/1973
The charge failed to disclose any offence known to law because it did not allege that the offers were unlawful or intended to induce witnesses to falsely retract evidence; the agreed formal admissions established that the first appellant believed payments were for a press conference and compensatory purposes, lawful in principle, and the trial judge impermissibly drew inferences beyond those agreed facts; accordingly the convictions could not stand and the appeals must be allowed.