HKSAR v. IP CHI KEUNG
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HCMA001175/1997
IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE
HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
(Appellate Jurisdiction)
MAGISTRACY APPEAL NO. 1175 OF 1997
(On appeal from WSS 20172-3/97)
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| BETWEEN | ||
| HKSAR | Respondent | |
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| IP CHI KEUNG | Appellant |
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Coram : The Honourable Mrs Justice V. Bokhary in Court
Date of Hearing : 25 March 1998
Date of Judgment : 25 March 1998
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J U D G M E N T
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1. The Appellant is a police constable attached to a traffic accident team. On 14th November last year, he was convicted after trial by D.J. Dufton, Esquire sitting in the Magistrate's Court at Western on one charge of careless driving and one charge of driving a private car when a passenger of two years or less was not securely fastened with a seat belt.
2. He now appeals against his convictions. He has written nothing in the space left in the pro-forma Notice of Appeal against Conviction for the insertion of his grounds of appeal. In court, he said that his only ground of appeal is that the magistrate has failed to consider the prosecution's failure to serve the Notice of Intended Prosecution on him within the 14 days as required under the law.
3. The magistrate has prepared a very detailed and careful Statement of Findings. He has in paragraph 14 of that Statement of Findings dealt specifically with the lateness of the Notice. It was only slightly late. The magistrate was entitled to take the view, which he did, that the Appellant was not prejudiced by such lateness.
4. I am fully satisfied of the propriety of the convictions; and this appeal is dismissed.
Representation:
Miss Denise Chan, S.G. C. for Respondent
Appellant, Ip Chi Keung, present in person
| (V. Bokhary) | |
| Judge of the Court of First Instance, High Court |