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Hong Kong Case Law

Penalty mitigation
  • 4 Apr 1979

    CHAN CHUNG-FAI v. THE PILOTAGE AUTHORITY

    Citation
    CHAN CHUNG-FAI v. THE PILOTAGE AUTHORITY
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMP64/1979

    The court accepted that the appellant breached pilotage duties by proceeding at unsafe speed, manoeuvring into congested waters and displaying confused/contradictory orders at the point of imminent collision, but rejected the Board's finding that the situation was a reciprocal head-on meeting under Rule 14; the cancellation of the licence was excessive and the matter of penalty is to be remitted to the Board for reconsideration.