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Use of false or misleading documents
  • 11 Apr 2024

    香港特別行政區 訴 周子羨

    Citation
    [2024] HKCFI 1292
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMA348/2023

    The judge accepted prosecution witnesses and documentary evidence that the appellant personally dealt with clients, provided and retrieved signed application forms, prepared recommendation documents, paid premiums using her account and received commissions shortly after policy approval; these facts justified the only reasonable inference that the appellant knew of and used the false, misleading statements to induce the insurer to issue policies and pay commissions; likewise, representing herself as handling agent without performing agent duties constituted a false representation made with int…