2026年3月11日星期三
I PG
至於這師妹是何許人也, 我全無印象, 但小綿羊初出道遇上猛虎, 比遇苛政更慘, 遇苛政尚可歪打正着入桃花源以避秦, 在庭上是逃不了的。我自己想洗白, 說猛虎不吃小綿羊, 勝之不武, 也不光彩。但小師妹為了一單"傷人19"的審訊記恨34年, 刻骨蝕心傷足34年, 不管她是否太脆弱, 是否還在香港處理刑事案, 我反躬自省, 責任一定屬於我的。時光不能倒流, 歷史不能抹掉。為了撫平她的傷痕和情緒, 我充滿歉疚的負荊請罪, 幡然悔悟。我是在法庭上甚麼都不concede的人, 人老了, 嚴以律己, 寬以待人。況且, 小師妹說當年連金牙大狀清洪也對她說我是很麻煩的, 這是不容否認的事實, 因為清洪兜口兜面也這樣對我講我麻煩, 我對他是針鋒相對, 寸土不讓的。雖然搜索枯腸也記不起這事, 撇撇脫脫接納小師妹的講法, beyond all reasonable doubts, 我欺負她。
如果打爛仔架, 就莫過於對已故的瘋狗M Parker, 他根本是hyena/wild dog, 如果對佢斯文, 佢逼到你跌落街, 不是逼你埋牆角, 所以我見到他就一定留難。有一次在plea court, 幾十單案, 十個八個私人老狀, 其中一個是這瘋狗, 他代表個雙花紅棍, 控罪是傷人17, 警察給他擔保上庭, 瘋狗問我擔保條件, 即是一星期報到多少次的, 我卻二話不說反對保釋。嘩! 瘋狗狂吠到炸了鍋, 個官問我點解反對, 我隨口都講到一堆理由, 終於收押了被告。後來被告上高院申請保釋, 我老細一個SACP問我同一個問題, 我又隨口噏幾個理由, 佢最終攞到擔保, 三十幾年前, 十幾萬擔保, 我睇你以後邊個仲敢請瘋狗做律師, 除非你好想花多啲律師費。之後瘋狗上庭見到我就不敢太放肆了。打爛仔架也有打爛仔架的好處。有一次Warwick Reid貪污案同案的A律師見到我同我講: 我同個客講, 呢個主控好難搞, 你唔認就死梗, 一係就申請押後避咗佢, 不過佢會反對押後, 所以被告PG (plead guilty)。很多其他煩瑣事不能盡錄。講到底我惡行昭彰, 不管這小師妹是何許人, 我PG, 希望她像破地獄的儀式之後, 可以消除這傷痛, 放下前塵往事, 接受我道歉。
還有爛仔來挑機我還會打架嗎? Let's see. I have the upper hand.
2026年3月10日星期二
一姐吃悶棍 (repost)
原本這一篇的留言涉及太多私隱, 所以把所有留言刪掉重登博文。如煙往事使人唏噓, 就讓它在混混沌沌間溜走。
黎智英的欺詐案昨天上訴庭頒令上訴得直, 原因有兩點, 簡而言之, 其一, 他沒有披露違反租約的責任, 所以不構成欺詐; 其二, 證據不足以使他個人負上刑責。本案的審訊及上訴均由刑事檢控專員楊美琪(Maggie Yang)親自披甲上陣。楊專員2021年8月正式坐正, 我印象中她以專員身分擔大旗作主控官的只有此宗, 她親自上陣的其他案件都涉及47人案被告在高院申請保釋的。為甚麼她選這一宗來做主控, 只有她自己才知道。這一宗一般會被視作違反租約的民事性質的案件, 以刑事檢控來處理並非標少的智力能理解的。上訴判詞不短, 我只是走馬式速讀, 要分析就留給學者去做。
本案對楊專員的威信打擊不少, 不是勝敗的關係。我以前講過, 歷屆的DPP披甲上陣最多的是薛偉成(Zervos), 他十分勇猛和辛辣, 轉任高院後現已是上訴庭法官。楊專員是事務律師出身, 一直在刑事檢控科辦事, 上庭經驗也豐富, 能力怎樣我沒資格評論, 我只是見過她初入職的模樣, 差不多時期入職的李運騰(Alex Lee)可能因為擁有短暫紀律部隊背景, 所以我覺得他思路清晰, 但這都是以前的印象, 後來就只能從判詞判斷個人能力。
這次黎智英上訴的判詞看到甚麼, 看倌當然要自己看。但我引用幾段來拋磚引玉, 以滿足在此出沒咪咪叫的小貓狺狺吠的小狗的食慾。判詞第118至123段足以使專員兩晚睡不着。第一點是專員沒有依賴《刑事訴訟程序條例》第101E條,即使該條文為最顯而易見的檢控途徑, 而依賴普通法的原則, 但本末倒置。第二點是在上訴時, 楊專員不能提出新理據爭辯。
118. In case we were wrong on sub-issue 1, we proceed to deal with the second sub-issue on attribution.
119. On the available evidence, the obvious route to attribute Apple Daily Printing’s breach of duty of disclosure to the applicants is section 101E of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance (Cap 221), which provides:
“Where a person by whom an offence under any Ordinance has been committed is a company and it is proved that the offence was committed with the consent or connivance of a director or other officer concerned in the management of the company, or any person purporting to act as such director or officer, the director or other officer shall be guilty of the like offence.”
However, the prosecution had not invoked it at trial. When we at the hearing query why the prosecution did not do so, Ms Yang does not offer any explanation. Instead, she expressly states that she will not rely on the section either. In light of her position, any further consideration as to whether and how the section might have augmented the prosecution case is academic.
120. Ms Yang seeks to rely on the established principle that corporate bodies are deemed to act and acquire knowledge through those individuals who can be identified as its directing minds: Smith, Hogan & Ormerod’s Criminal Law, 17th Edition, §§8.1.2, 23.2; R v A Ltd & Others [2017] 1 Cr App R 1, at §§26-27; R v Alstom Network UK Ltd [2019] 2 Cr App R 34, at §30. Under this principle, the company is fixed with criminal liability through the acts or omissions of its directing mind. As the learned editors of Blackstone’s Criminal Practice (2025) summarized at §A6.23:
“Because a company is a separate person from its officers, the officers will not necessarily be guilty of a crime just because the company is. Conversely, since a company may be fixed with criminal liability through the acts or omissions of its ‘directing mind’, the way for criminal liability to be proved may, depending on the relevant rule of attribution, be by identifying the criminal acts of one of its officers; in those circumstances both the individual officer and the company may be guilty. In appropriate circumstances, both the company and its officers may be charged with a criminal offence and/or with aiding and abetting an employee to commit a crime …”
121. This rule is the criminal law’s solution to the lack of a corporate body to perform the actus reus and a corporate mind capable of forming mens rea by treating the minds and bodies of the officers concerned as supplying its mental and physical faculties: Smith, Hogan & Ormerod’s Criminal Law, §8.1.2.5. It only attributes criminal liability to a company through the act of its officer who is the directing mind. It does not have the opposite effect of attributing the company’s criminal liability to its officers. Ms Yang’s reliance on this rule is entirely misplaced. If her submission were accepted, it would turn the rule on its head.
G3. Sub-issue 3: Did the applicants have an independent personal duty?
122. Ms Yang makes no submission that the applicants owed the Corporation an independent personal duty to disclose Apple Daily Printing’s breach of the user restrictions or the non-alienation clauses. That is a recognition on her part that no such duty arose either as a matter of law or on the facts.
123. In her oral submissions, Ms Yang raises two fresh points for the first time on appeal:
(1) Both Apple Daily Printing and the applicants might be held liable under the Charges as participants to a joint enterprise. However, that is not what the Charges alleged. Further, Apple Daily Printing has not been named as a co-defendant, contrary to the rudimentary requirement that the prosecution must expressly name a co-defendant in a joint charge if his identity is known.
(2) The 1st applicant had used Apple Daily Printing as a vehicle to perpetrate the fraud against the Corporation. That was never the prosecution case below and the Judge did not make any finding to that effect either.
These points are not open to the prosecution on appeal.
我不知後續會怎樣發展下去, 因為律政司說會研究判詞再決定會否上訴。以我有限知識以純法律看, 似乎沒有理據, 若不是從法律觀點看, 我就不會懂了。如果這上訴是本案最終結果, 黎智英另一宗案件20年的刑期會產生變化, 因為其中兩年應與本案同期執行的, 這同期的兩年消失了, 他20年的刑期就要由顛覆政權案不准保釋還押的時間扣減, 按《刑事訴訟條例》第67A"監禁刑罰的計算" (Computation of sentences of imprisonment)再計過。
2026年2月21日星期六
踢出校
這位關同學可謂有勇無謀, 在此種政治環境及氛圍下應該加倍謹慎, 措詞減低煽情成分, 四大訴求的字眼應小心斟酌, 以免墮入法網, 也可避免視他為眼中釘的人可借故下手, 和校方的通訊文字應該溫文有禮, 戒急用忍, 逞一時英雄惹來一筐麻煩, 被人揑著把柄自尋煩惱。上訴應按Statue 26(14)提出, 失敗了才提司法覆核。甚麼kangaroo court/disgrace之類的字眼就別再用了, 現在的大學既小器也同唱一台戲的。
2026年2月11日星期三
黎智英的判刑
另一邊廂有學者認為定罪和判刑都屬離譜。對於定罪, 不同政治立場的人對證據的分析會得出不同結論, 我之前也提出過, 3位法官聽審後的判決是否合理, 以我apolitical的立場, 我不覺得有甚麼不妥, 開明和保守的法官一定可以作不同裁決。From that perspective, 沒有對錯可言, 上訴時只會審視有沒有犯規。有人說黎智英的判刑比大陸政治犯更嚴苛, 劉曉波也只是判了11年。我想這比較不太恰當, 劉曉波的判刑應跟戴耀庭比, 都屬書生論政, 控罪也相同, 沒有勾結外國勢力的元素。大陸的判刑留給忠君愛黨的梁美芬教授評論, 甚或是儍笑議員江旻憓作評論, 都比我強得多, 我不懂大陸那一套, 也不懂儍笑。
香港法庭的判決講stare decisis, 判刑亦然, 所以黎智英的判刑引用馬俊文及呂世瑜案終審法院訂立的考慮元素。對黎智英的年齡及健康考慮, 判詞中也講了:
66. As has been mentioned, Lai is now aged 78. We note that advanced age may be taken into account not as a matter of principle, but “as an act of mercy”: HKSAR v Tam Yuen Tong[25]. Furthermore, although an offender’s life expectancy, age, health and prospect of dying in prison were factors legitimately to be taken into account in sentencing, they had to be balanced against the gravity of the offence, and the public interest in seeing adequate punishment for very serious crimes.: R v Clarke: R v Cooper[26].
2026年2月7日星期六
吹哨人被控起底
我引用明報的報導作本案的背景依據:
「起底」罪可分為兩級(two tiers), 私隱專員公署的講法:
- The first tier offence is a summary offence for disclosing any personal data of a data subject without the relevant consent of the data subject, and the discloser has an intent to or is being reckless as to whether any specified harm would be, or would likely be, caused to the data subject or any family member of the data subject. Any person who commits the first tier doxxing offence is liable on summary conviction to a fine of HK$100,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years.
- The second tier offence is an indictable offence for disclosing any personal data of a data subject without the relevant consent of the data subject; the discloser has an intent to or is being reckless as to whether any specified harm would be, or would likely be, caused to the data subject or any family member of the data subject; and the disclosure causes any specified harm to the data subject or any family member of the data subject. Any person who commits the second tier doxxing offence is liable on conviction on indictment to a fine of HK$1,000,000 and to imprisonment for 5 years.
2026年1月27日星期二
評2026年法律年度開啟典禮首席法官的演詞
過往CJ的演詞很少直接評論正審的案件, 這次直接講黎智英案, 可謂迫不得已, 因為呼籲立即釋放黎智英的聲音太多, CJ不得不回應一下。CJ提出一個現實的法律問題:
這幾句很明顯在回應立即釋放黎智英的要求。認真講法律程序, 怎樣可以立即釋放被告? 在未定罪之前, 控方可以撤銷控罪, 在定罪之後法庭判處可以立即釋放被告的刑罰, 又或者行政長官在被告被判刑後運用《基本法》第48(12)條賦予的權力, " 赦免或減輕刑事罪犯的刑罰"。現階段控方沒可能撤銷控罪, 法庭也沒可能判黎智英可以立即釋放的刑期, 行政長官更沒可能赦免或減輕眼中釘的刑罰。所以, 要求立即釋放黎智英的人恐怕沒有提出實際的法律可行辦法, 只是一種政治口號及期許。我一直相信黎智英會死在獄中。如果可以繞過法律程序立即釋放黎智英, 相反而言任何人也可以被繞過法律程序無理收押。
7. In his closing submissions prosecuting counsel said:
“Now, remember suspicion is not enough. If you only suspect that the defendant had committed the crime that is not enough. You must give the benefit of the doubt to the defendant and you must acquit her. As the learned judge also said, the defendant needs not prove her innocence. She needs not prove anything. She needed not to give evidence. She needed not to call any defence witnesses and she only exercised her right not to give evidence and not to call any defence witnesses and no adverse inference can be drawn against her. The burden is all along on me, on the prosecution, but the fact remains the defendant did not give evidence.”
Later in his closing submissions prosecuting counsel said:
“Now, again the defendant’s case: you will remember the defendant exercised her right not to give evidence, not to go to the witness box. That’s her right. That’s fine. As I have said the burden is on me to prove the case. But I did not have the opportunity to cross-examine the defendant. I cannot ask her any questions. I did not because she elected not to give evidence and I am unable to test her credibility to test whether she is an honest person, to test about her reliability, whether what she says would be reliable. I have no such opportunity. But in any event, of course she had chosen to speak up in the video-recorded interview, but it is my position and it is my case that the defendant had not told you the truth and/or the whole truth about her story. ”
撇開"needs""needed"的文法錯誤不講, 問題都出在我加了綠色的幾句, 終審法院認為主控嚴重侵犯了被告不作供的權利, 也違反了《刑事訴訟程序條例》第 54(1)(b) 條的禁止規定。本案的判詞也為日後陪審團案提供陳詞指引, 詳情請自己閱讀判詞。因為本案的判決提供了程序指引, 才使我推斷CJ該段演詞是有所指的。
近日觀看太多國際羽毛球賽事, 加上澳洲網球公開賽, CJ的演詞一直擱下沒評論, 直到看到夏主任的訓示, 標少這舊時人, 在新時代洪流淹沒之前, 垂死吐槽。海上生明月, 天涯共此時。
2026年1月19日星期一
殺馬
今早我刪去上一篇博文的第二段, 也把第二段引發的評論留言一併刪除, 原因很簡單, 這一段的文字及留言引致馬鹿病發, 使他留了不堪入目的一段文字。試想一下屠夫宰殺動物後, 把器官拿出來玩弄那種場景。我今早起來看到馬鹿留言那段文字, 就深深體會到孕婦妊娠早期噁心嘔吐的感覺。如果純罵粗, 我不會嘔吐, 有些人除了罵粗之外, 就沒有表達感受的能力和文采, 你不能夠要求殺豬的一面殺一面唸唐詩。但律師嘛, 受過訟辯訓練, 別人對你的表達能力有一定期許, 出口就像屠夫掏出器官來把弄, 那就應該去屠場或者風月場打工, 不要留在法律圈獻世。我認識一位朱某大狀, 他在法庭裏罵自己的客仔用的並非單字的粗口, 我聽到也感到非常難受和尷尬, 那位大狀儼然是個黑老大在罵自己的馬仔, 我真不明白當年港大怎出這種產品。在法庭偶然見到罵粗的場景, 一般是被告被判刑後罵官, 有的法官會對被告加刑, 有的會一笑置之。我就記得Gerard Muttrie做裁判官的時候, 有一次被告問候他娘親, 他笑笑口對被告說: Defendant, my mother is 80. Go ahead。我搖搖頭笑了出來, 深深體會Muttrie的EQ。
為甚麼要寫這一篇? 我就是要單挑馬鹿, 其他人請勿插嘴, 我不想他罵其他人。不管是牛律師馬律師黃絲藍絲, 我想看下真材實料的訟辯能力, 而不是解剖性器官的能力。我秣馬厲兵, 隨時候教, 只需衝著我來。