8 Feb 1996
R. v. KAI TAI CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING CO. LTD.
- Citation
- R. v. KAI TAI CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING CO. LTD.
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA1123/1995
The appeal was allowed because the magistrate had placed reliance on expert opinion given by a Labour Department officer who could not be regarded as an independent and impartial expert for a prosecution organized by that same department; that reliance rendered the conviction unsafe notwithstanding that the judge would have rejected the appellant's statutory defence on its merits.