28 Jan 2021
香港特別行政區 訴 岑嘉林
- Citation
- [2021] HKCFI 158
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA281/2020
The appeals were dismissed because the trial judge permissibly took judicial notice of the widely known context of ongoing violent protest activity and, after applying established principles for inferring intent from circumstantial and environmental evidence (including the nature and capability of the items, the appellant's attire and equipment, and the contemporaneous protest context), reached the only irresistible inference that the appellant possessed and intended the items as offensive weapons; therefore the convictions for both counts were safe and must be upheld.