20 Jul 1978
CHUNG YAT AND OTHERS v. THE QUEEN
- Citation
- CHUNG YAT AND OTHERS v. THE QUEEN
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC160/1978
Offences under s.40 of the Buildings Ordinance require actual or constructive knowledge; where defective works and deviations were proved and the company's statutory duty of continuous supervision was delegated to identifiable officers who knew or wilfully shut their eyes to defects, constructive knowledge can be imputed to the company and liability follow under s.40(6); on facts, convictions of the first and second appellants and the company were sustained for causation and constructive knowledge, but conviction of the third appellant was unsafe and quashed because he had ceased supervision…