Tai Hang Sai Estate resident fined for broadcasting demands through loudspeaker loses appeal; High Court refuses certificate for final appeal
擺擴音器播訴求罪成罰款 大坑西邨居民上訴失敗 高院拒發上訴至終院證明書
Tai Hang Sai Estate resident Wong Kwai-keung was accused of placing a loudspeaker in the estate last June and broadcasting demands expressing dissatisfaction with its redevelopment. He was convicted after trial on a summons charge of “noise nuisance caused by a loudspeaker” and fined $1,500. High Court acting judge Chun Man (OIAP) Li dismissed his appeal and, in a judgment handed down on Friday (19th), refused to issue Wong a certificate to appeal to the Court of Final Appeal. The judgment said Wong’s grounds of appeal concerned only how the relevant legal principles should be applied, and did not involve “a point of law of great and general importance”. They therefore did not meet the requirements for an appeal to the Court of Final Appeal.
大坑西邨居民黃桂強被指去年 6 月在邨內擺放擴音器、播放不滿重建的訴求，受審後被裁定「擴音器造成的噪音煩擾」傳票罪成，罰款 1,500 元。高院暫委法官李俊文駁回他的上訴，周五（19 日）再頒下判詞，拒絕向黃發出上訴至終審法院證明書。 判詞指，黃的上訴理據只涉如何應用相關法律原則，不屬「具有重大而廣泛重要性的法律論點」，不符合案件上訴至終院的要求。