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The Hong Kong Court of Appeal refused leave to appeal against sentence for conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office arising from prison telephone and cigarette contraband.
Court of Appeal upheld D8’s money laundering conviction, reduced D6’s sentence to 15 months, and reduced D1 and D8’s sentences on appeal.
The Court of Final Appeal granted leave to the first applicant on a substantial and grave injustice ground, but refused leave to the second and third applicants.
Court of Appeal adjusted the first applicant’s sentence for fraud and bribery to 2 years, but upheld the second applicant’s 10-month sentence as not manifestly excessive.
Criminal appeal on bribery, conspiracy to defraud, and deception counts arising from standby letters of credit. Only the first applicant’s charge 12 conviction was quashed.
Leave to appeal out of time was refused because the later corruption conviction of a police sergeant did not make the applicant’s drug and resisting-arrest convictions unsafe.
The Court of Appeal granted leave to appeal out of time and reduced a 32-month sentence to 20 months, giving extra credit for exceptional cooperation with ICAC.
The Court of Appeal dismissed an application for leave to appeal against sentence arising from police corruption to assist suspects evade conviction.
Court of Appeal varied a corruption sentence after finding the judge had not properly applied the totality principle; the term was reduced from 4 years 10 months to 4 years 2 months.
The High Court allowed an appeal against conviction, holding that the magistrate wrongly relied on an untested pre-trial admission and failed to disclose immunity terms.
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