22 Dec 2023
HKSAR v. LAI CHEE YING AND OTHERS
- Citation
- [2023] HKCFI 3337
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCCC51/2022
The court held the alleged conspiracy was a continuing offence whose limitation period ran from the last date pleaded (24 June 2021); a prosecution for limitation purposes is 'begun' when the information is laid at the magistracy (received 14 December 2021), and because the information was so laid within six months of 24 June 2021 the sedition count was not time‑barred; defence application dismissed.