17 Dec 1998
HKSAR v. LAU SHIU KONG AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- HKSAR v. LAU SHIU KONG AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC274/1998
The Court accepted that the evidence (principally Kevin Smith) established the applicants acted as agents for Sansegal (U.S.), that the Sourcing Forms intentionally misstated ex-factory prices (thus were false documents within s.9(3)), and that the applicants accepted secret commissions from Hong Tat which causally required them to favour Hong Tat; contested oral and written admissions were excluded on voir dire but ample admissible evidence remained to sustain convictions; any misdescription of employment via Sansegal (H.K.) was not material and convictions are neither unsafe nor unsatisfact…