8 Dec 2016
HKSAR v. LUK KIN PETER JOSEP AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- HKSAR v. LUK KIN PETER JOSEP AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of Final Appeal
- Case number
- FACC8/2016
The court held that a person who undertakes to find a purchaser and thereby assumes a duty to act in the principal's interest can be an "agent" under s.9 POBO even without a pre-existing contractual or fiduciary relationship; "other document" in s.9(3) is not ejusdem generis and includes board minutes; attribution of knowledge or permission to a company must be determined by the statute's purpose and cannot be used to defeat anti-corruption offences; on the facts the appellants were agents of China Mining, the board minutes were a document under s.9(3), and the appeals were dismissed.