由此 - 7 A A sentence: for example, in LAM Hin-yar v HKSAR HCMA18/2003, Beeson B B J observed: C “It is important to note that it is the individual who is sentenced in cases such as this, given that there are no tariff sentences, although some guidelines exist. That somebody is a keeper of a vice establishment, for instance, does not make that person necessarily more culpable than a person who manages the establishment; it depends on the specific facts of the case. Here, the Appellant was not simply a tenant, but was involved in the running of the vice establishments operating in the premises.” D E F G H that being a case in which there was evidence of direct control and direction of the prostitutes and sharing of the proceeds of each act of C D E F G H prostitution: a period of four months imprisonment for living on the I J earnings of prostitution was not disturbed on appeal. Similarly in YU Kin-chiu v HKSAR HCMA869/1999 a sentence of three months I J imprisonment was upheld on appeal where there had been evidence of K L M N introduction of the prostitute to, and participation in the fee paid by, clients. 12. K L In PANG For-cheuk v HKSAR CACC623/1998, a case which, on its facts was at the opposite end of the scale to those referred to in the M N preceding paragraph, Leong JA, giving the judgment of the Court, said: O P Q R S T O “2. ... In February, 1997, PW1 a 17 year-old girl was taken there by her boy friend to work as a prostitute to pay off a debt which her boy friend had incurred and in respect of which she acted as guarantor. The arrangement was that customers would pay the applicant for the girl's service and the applicant after deducting his share, would give the balance of the fees to the girl to pay off the debt of her boyfriend. A week after the girl started work, instead of receiving customers at the applicant's place, she was sent to such places as the applicant directed to provide service to the customers there. On her return, she would have to account to the applicant her intake and the applicant would then give her her share. This went on until March or April the following year when the girl indicated to the applicant she did not want to work as a P Q R S T U U V V