5 Dec 2008
HKSAR v. TIN\'S LABEL FACTORY LTD
- Citation
- HKSAR v. TIN\'S LABEL FACTORY LTD
- Court
- Court of Final Appeal
- Case number
- FACC5/2008
The perfection rule applies to magisterial appeals to the CFI; the decision of the judge is only perfected when the magistrates' clerk enters the judge's memorandum in the magistrates' register kept under s.35(1) of the Magistrates Ordinance (the computerized register); until that entry the judge may alter his decision; the first written judgment purporting to dismiss the appeal was legally void and the second written judgment properly constitutes the reasons for the oral decision allowing the appeal.