Court dismisses appeal over Facebook sentence
Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal rejects an application for leave to appeal against a sentence for giving unlicensed securities advice via the social networking site.
A Hong Kong court has dismissed an application from Lo Kam Chung to appeal against a sentence imposed on him for carrying on an unlicensed securities business via Facebook.
The Court of Final Appeal rejected the application because it could find no reasonable grounds for granting him leave to appeal.
Lo was convicted in the magistrates court last December of advising on securities via Facebook when he was not licensed by the city’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC).
He w…
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