14 Dec 1999
SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE v. JERRY LUI KIN HONG
- Citation
- SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE v. JERRY LUI KIN HONG
- Court
- Court of Final Appeal
- Case number
- FACC3/1999
The Court held that a judge is entitled at common law to examine the form and contents of documentary material and draw inferences for the purpose of determining whether statutory conditions for admitting business records are satisfied; documents that are tendered to show entries, discrepancies or adoption as business records (not to prove the truth of the substantive statements they contain) are not hearsay and are admissible; s.22B(2) does not preclude such examination and s.22A does not bar admission where documents are tendered otherwise than to prove a fact stated in them.