28 Mar 2002
Given the premeditated and brutal nature of the assault, the organiser role in the false accusation, the appellant's prior convictions and lack of demonstrated remorse, a community service order was inappropriate and the Magistrate's immediate custodial sentences were proper; the total sentence of 4 months imprisonment was not excessive and the appeal is dismissed.
14 Feb 1992
The Magistrate failed to take sufficient account of the amendment to an attempt (and its mitigating effect); accordingly the appropriate custodial period was reduced from two months to one month on each count consecutive, with suspension of the sentence given the totality of factors.
4 Sept 1991
Conviction quashed because an essential element of the amended offence — that the police officer was misled — was not proved by evidence and any inference of being misled was not inescapable; a retrial was refused as not in the interests of justice.
28 Feb 1991
The conviction under s.64(b) Police Force Ordinance could not stand because the prosecution failed to prove an essential element — that the police officer to whom the false information was given was in some way misled; mere making of a false statement is not sufficient where the statute requires that the officer be misled.