30 Nov 1972
The magistrate accepted the police officer's testimony over the appellant's unsworn denial; there was no basis shown to conclude the magistrate was wrong, so the conviction was upheld.
18 Jul 1972
Appellate court held that the prosecution evidence was insufficient on issues of speed and distance to safely support a finding of careless driving beyond reasonable doubt; proposed fresh evidence was of minimal value and not admitted, and therefore the conviction was unsafe and was quashed.
18 May 1972
The magistrate accepted the sworn police evidence over the appellant's unsworn statement and there was no basis for this Court to find that the magistrate's factual conclusions were wrong; therefore the conviction must be upheld.
28 Sept 1971
The magistrate was entitled to accept the clear eyewitness evidence of police that money was handed from passenger to driver and to infer payment for carriage; there were no material conflicts justifying rejection of that evidence and no misdirection on the onus of proof, so the convictions must be upheld.
Majority held the magistrate erred: omission of para (h) from the 1906 Criminal Evidence Ordinance did not, on the proper construction read with the existing provision preserving English practice, abrogate the accused's right to make an unsworn statement; in any event the long-established practice in Hong Kong had become a rule of law and the appellant was entitled to make such a statement. The appeal was allowed.