THE QUEEN
LEE KEUNG
Mr W.S. Cheung, S.A.C.P.
HCMA 19/1996
HCMA000019/1996
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
(Appellate Jurisdiction)
MAGISTRACY APPEAL NO. 19 OF 1996
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Coram : Hon Duffy, J. in Court
Date of hearing : 7 February 1996
Date of handing down judgment : 13 February 1996
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J U D G M E N T
1. This was an appeal against sentence. The appellant had been found guilty on his own plea of failing to display a taximeter indicator without reasonable excuse, and stopping or loitering elsewhere than a taxi stand without reasonable excuse while his taxi was available for hire. He was fined $1,000 for each offence.
2. On his application at Appeal I felt that the second offence was not entirely separate from the first offence, and that therefore I could reduce the penalty for the second offence to a fine of $500. The appeal was allowed accordingly.
Representation:
Mr W.S. Cheung, S.A.C.P., for Crown
Appellant (Lee Keung) in person
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