20 Jun 2003
HKSAR v. LAM TAK KEE
- Citation
- HKSAR v. LAM TAK KEE
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA162/2003
The appeal was allowed because the magistrate failed to consider the appellant's plausible innocent explanation (that he had dropped a newspaper and any contact may have been accidental), creating an incurable defect such that the conviction was unsafe; accordingly the conviction was quashed and the sentence set aside.