A member of the jury hearing the trial of Peter Chan Chun-chuen, a self-styled fung shui master of Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum, has been discharged for health reasons.
The number of jurors hearing the case is now eight, following Mr Justice Andrew Macrae's decision to allow one to be discharged yesterday, the seventh day of a trial that began on May 24.
The reduced size of the jury will not affect the number of jurors' findings required to reach a verdict.
With an eight-member jury, the prosecution still needs at least six jurors to find Chan guilty in order to secure a conviction.
Chan, 53, is accused of forging a will in the name of Chinachem tycoon Wang, a charge he denies.
Yesterday, the prosecution called its fourth witness, Ng Shung-mo, to give his first testimony in the trial.
Ng, director and manager of the Chinachem Group, said that in 2003, Wang gave him a folder containing several photocopies of a will she drafted in 2002.
