4 Apr 2022
香港特別行政區 訴 SATBIR SINGH 及另一人
- Citation
- [2022] HKCFI 919
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA196/2020
The convictions were upheld because expert and witness evidence established that the fish-machine play combined chance and skill and that exchanging machine points for cash constituted gambling; first appellant acted in the role of banker/manager in repeated point-for-cash transactions thereby managing a gambling establishment within a licensed venue; second appellant's conviction was upheld but the sentencing judge erroneously relied on an impermissible factual inference that the licensee knowingly permitted the activity, so the appellate court substituted suspension of the custodial terms f…