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HK Court of Final Appeal, 23-Feb-2012
The solicitor succeeds in her appeal and has her conviction for breach of the law on champerty and maintenance quashed. Bokhary says "nothing which I have said is meant to discourage consideration of legislative reform of the law as to maintenance, champerty or matters relating thereto." Ribeiro says: "I wish to raise for consideration the question whether and to what extent criminal liability for maintenance should be retained in Hong Kong... In England and Wales, criminal and tortious liability for both maintenance and champerty were abolished by the Criminal Law Act 1967..."
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