刑事檢控科各律師/高級律政 - Department of Justice

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other steps taken to prevent the public from potentially being misled as
to his professional qualification. It was in respect of these activities that
the Applicant was found to have been reckless. That was a conclusion
involving questions of fact for the magistrate, and raised no point of law
of great and general importance;
Question 3
(7) This question raised no point of law of great and general
importance. The magistrate found that given the contents of the
advertisements and business cards and the circumstances of their
publication and use, by describing himself as a ‘lawyer’ and his
company as a ‘law firm’, the Applicant had made a false
representation that he was someone qualified to practise law as a
solicitor;
(8) The question properly before the magistrate was whether, given
their contents and the context in which they were published and used,
the advertisements and business cards amounted to a pretence caught
by s 46. That was a question specific to the circumstances of the case,
and involved no point of law of great and general importance.
Result - Application dismissed.