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Witness contamination
  • 11 May 2010

    SECRETARY OF JUSTICE v. LAU HON KEUNG AND OTHERS

    Citation
    SECRETARY OF JUSTICE v. LAU HON KEUNG AND OTHERS
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC156/2009

    The judge was wrong to enter no case to answer in respect of Charges 4 and 7 because, independent of the impugned police witness evidence, there was sufficient admissible evidence for a jury properly directed to infer that the Temple Street Sauna and New Crystal Spa were being used for illicit vice activities on 13 June 2005 and that the 1st respondent, by virtue of his extensive and exclusive cheque-signing authority and large cash withdrawals from the companies' bank accounts, could reasonably be found to have known or had reasonable grounds to believe that monies he dealt with were proceed…