8 Aug 1986
CHEN TA HOI AND OTHERS v. THE QUEEN
- Citation
- CHEN TA HOI AND OTHERS v. THE QUEEN
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA700/1986
The court upheld the magistrate's primary factual findings that the premises were a gambling establishment and that statutory presumptions under s19 applied and were not rebutted, sustaining convictions of the appellants on the gambling charge; however the conviction of Chen Ta Hoi under s5(c) was quashed for duplicity because the count impermissibly combined assisting in operation and in management/other control, and the court amended the charge to 'assist in the operation' and ordered a re‑hearing on that amended charge.