Hong Kong Case Law: Decisions & Judgments | LexChat

Topic

Long firm fraud

Legal area

Court

13 Dec 2011

HKSAR v. CHAN SIU TAI EDWARD

Citation

HKSAR v. CHAN SIU TAI EDWARD
Court

Court of Appeal
Case number

CACC78/2011

Given the applicant's central role in establishing and controlling the company and being the sole authorised signatory who signed three large cheques on an account with negligible funds, and having offered no explanation by electing not to testify, the only reasonable and irresistible inference was that he participated in the fraud and knew the cheques would be dishonoured.
11 Sept 2002

HKSAR v. WAT YIU KWONG CARDIFF

Citation

HKSAR v. WAT YIU KWONG CARDIFF
Court

Court of Appeal
Case number

CACC237/2001

The conviction was upheld because the totality of the evidence — presentation of a false business card, repeated representations as a manager, presence and activity with the known organisers, and conduct consistent with a long firm fraud — warranted the inference the applicant knowingly assisted the conspiracy; the abandonment of the sentence appeal was not a nullity because it was an intended, informed decision and mere misjudgement of prospects does not vitiate a notice of abandonment.