20 Nov 2023
Husband was found not credible and failed to make full and frank financial disclosure; wife elected not to seek division of assets; on the facts and considering statutory s.7(1) factors the court denied husband’s ancillary relief claims, awarded symbolic spousal maintenance of HK$1 per year to wife, ordered wife to pay child maintenance HK$2,500 per month, and awarded costs to wife of HK$6,100.
31 May 2013
The phrase 'having reasonable grounds to believe' requires an objective assessment by a common‑sense reasonable person of the facts that were known to the defendant (subjective knowledge of those facts), but does not permit importing the defendant's subjective processing or beliefs; the proper approach is to identify the facts known to the defendant and then ask whether those facts would give reasonable grounds to believe the property represented proceeds of an indictable offence; on the facts the required grounds existed and the defendant knew them, so conviction was upheld.