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Topic

Assisting in management of vice establishment

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Court

8 Aug 2006

HKSAR v. LAI TZE KAI AND OTHERS

Citation

HKSAR v. LAI TZE KAI AND OTHERS
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCMA434/2006

Given repeated immediate offers of sexual services on multiple visits, staff-wide knowledge and explanation of higher-priced sexual-service charges, covert practices (blacked-out windows), dual receipt system showing inflated customer payments, discovery of condoms and continuity across visits, the magistrate was entitled to infer the premises were mainly used to organise or arrange prostitution; therefore convictions were properly upheld.
4 Oct 1988

THE QUEEN v. TSO KAI TAI AND OTHERS

Citation

THE QUEEN v. TSO KAI TAI AND OTHERS
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCMA728/1988

The magistrate properly inferred from seven consistent undercover incidents over four visits that 'hanging the bill' had acquired the meaning of procuring sexual intimacy at that premises; that inference was supported by evidence that payments were collected by the establishment and not the hostesses, and therefore appellants, employed to introduce hostesses, knew of and assisted in the management of a vice establishment; the appellate court will not disturb those findings absent lack of evidential basis.