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Hong Kong Case Law

Participation in illegal assembly
  • 19 Aug 2022

    香港特別行政區 訴 余樂謠

    Citation
    [2022] HKCFI 2550
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMA300/2021

    The conviction is upheld because the admitted facts and accepted police evidence established that the appellant stood at the forefront of a masked, agitated crowd for over an hour, actively shouted slogans and made gestures, ignored repeated statutory warnings to disperse, and was in circumstances (laser pointers, attempts to block the road, heightened tension) that would reasonably cause fear that the assembly would disturb public order; the magistrate's credibility findings and inference to guilt were logical and open on the evidence, and any additional reference to the joint criminal plan…