19 Aug 2015
香港特別行政區 訴 方耀
- Citation
- 香港特別行政區 訴 方耀
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA671/2014
The trial judge did not err in law or principle: the relevant offences are not strict liability requiring no mental element, the judge properly inferred from the totality of connected evidence that the appellant knew the kind of medicines he possessed and sold, there was no evidential basis to trigger the common law defence of honest and reasonable belief, and therefore the convictions were safe and must be upheld.