27 Feb 1985
ATTORNEY GENERAL v. HO WAI CHUEN
- Citation
- ATTORNEY GENERAL v. HO WAI CHUEN
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA124/1985
The cautioned admissions lacked sufficient detail (no initiation or overt acts) to found a conviction for membership by themselves; a confession under caution to a police officer cannot itself constitute claiming or professing membership though it can be admissible evidence of membership; the trial judge did not err in stopping the trial and dismissing the charge before calling the prosecution's expert because expert evidence is necessary to establish the society's unlawful character and the admissions alone did not disclose a case to answer.