18 Oct 2019
The Court found that opening and controlling MAS1 and multi‑currency accounts combined with proactive enquiries and attempts to move the suspicious funds demonstrated a higher level of participation and at least wilful blindness, justifying a 3.5‑year starting point reduced to 30 months; the application for leave to appeal against sentence had no reasonable arguable grounds and was dismissed.
9 May 2017
The plaintiff made a genuine unilateral mistake as to currency/price but the defendant did not actually know and there was no sufficient objective basis to infer that the defendant must have known or been willfully blind; therefore there was a binding agreement and no grounds to set it aside; plaintiff's claims dismissed with costs.
2 Jan 1980
Conviction was unsafe because material reliance was placed on erroneous evidence about the time of delivery and the prosecution failed to negative a plausible alternative explanation (sale by Cheung Man); therefore the Crown did not prove beyond reasonable doubt that the appellant knew the goods were stolen.
2 Aug 1978
The magistrate's factual finding that the manager employed the underage girl and was wilfully blind to her age established guilty knowledge; therefore the appellant, as licensee, was vicariously liable and the appeal is dismissed.