Hong Kong Case Law

香港特別行政區 訴 賴智輝

Court

Court of Appeal

Case number

CACC442/2025

Bail pending appeal was refused because the applicant failed to demonstrate that his intended appeal had a very high prospect of success or that his sentence was so short that refusal would be unfair; the judge found the grounds advanced were unmeritorious given the applicant's own admitted facts, prior convictions, period of absconding and the reasoned sentencing analysis of the trial judge.

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• Bail pending appeal
• Sentence appeal
• Triad offences
• Guilty plea mitigation
• Evidence credibility

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HKSAR v. CHAU YU TUNG

Court

Court of Appeal

Case number

CACC62/2025

The Court of Appeal refused leave to challenge a 42 months and 20 days sentence for laundering proceeds through two bank accounts, upholding a one-third OSCO enhancement.

• Proceeds of crime
• Stooge accounts
• Section 27 osco enhancement
• Totality principle
• Guilty plea discount
• Sentencing starting points

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香港特別行政區 訴 楊振昇及另四人

Court

District Court

Case number

DCCC970/2023

The court fixed objective starting points for each offence (triad conduct 15 or 9 months depending on role; assault 9 months; arson 36 months; failure to surrender 3 months), applied a one‑third reduction for timely guilty pleas, allowed mitigation for significant prosecutorial delay by reducing terms or suspending sentences as appropriate, and applied the totality principle to order partial concurrency resulting in final immediate custodial terms for D4 and aggregate suspended or immediate sentences for others; compensation and administrative handling of D11's detention were ordered accordin…

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• Triad offence
• Assault occasioning actual bodily harm
• Arson
• Failure to surrender to custody
• Prosecutorial delay
• Guilty plea mitigation

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香港特別行政區 訴 周朗賢

Court

Court of First Instance

Case number

HCMA172/2021

The Court upheld the trial judge's adoption of a 9-month sentencing starting point for participation as a triad member, accepted a 3-month deduction for serious prosecutorial delay, and concluded the resulting 6-month immediate imprisonment was not in principle wrong or manifestly excessive; family hardship and later material did not justify further reduction or non-custodial disposal.

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• Triad offence
• Sentencing
• Prosecutorial delay
• Leadership role
• Mitigation

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香港特別行政區 對 陳偉明

Court

Court of Appeal

Case number

CACC122/2019

The renewed application for leave was dismissed because the recognition parade and in‑court identifications were properly conducted and reliable, the trial judge's credibility findings were open on the evidence, and there was sufficient evidence that the applicant claimed to be a member of 14K to require him to answer the charge.

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• Identification evidence
• Fairness of recognition parade
• Triad membership offence
• No‑case‑to‑answer
• Leave to appeal

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HKSAR v. WONG PUI TING HEIDI

Court

District Court

Case number

DCCC83/2019

The District Court made an OSCO confiscation order against the defendant for HK$33,189,534.45, rejecting proposed deductions and imposing 10 years’ default imprisonment.

• Confiscation order
• Organised and serious crimes ordinance
• Benefit valuation
• Forfeiture
• Default imprisonment
• Confiscation-order

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HKSAR v. WONG PUI TING HEIDI

Court

District Court

Case number

DCCC463/2019

The District Court made a confiscation order under OSCO for HK$33,189,534.45, accepted the prosecution’s ledger evidence, and imposed 10 years’ default imprisonment.

• Confiscation order
• Section 8 osco
• Section 10 statement
• Benefit valuation
• Standard of proof
• Default imprisonment

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香港特別行政區 訴 黃怡凱

Court

Court of Appeal

Case number

CACC293/2019

The court held that the sentencing starting point of 4 years 9 months (57 months), adjusted for aggravating factors of international involvement and organised criminal group, was not manifestly excessive; the judge properly considered the totality of funds in accounts forming part of the single conspiracy rather than isolating only amounts recorded after the applicant's arrival; the one‑third guilty plea reduction was correctly applied, and leave to appeal was refused.

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• Conspiracy to handle proceeds of indictable offences
• Sentencing starting point
• Aggravating factors (international element, organised criminal group)
• Credit for early guilty plea

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HKSAR v. LEE TAI HING

Court

Court of Appeal

Case number

CACC228/2019

Court of Appeal refused bail pending appeal, holding the applicant had not shown any reasonably arguable ground of appeal or risk justifying release.

• Bail pending appeal
• Voluntariness of statements
• Admissibility of evidence
• Credibility findings
• Leave to appeal
• Sentence

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香港特別行政區 訴 柳志華

Court

Court of First Instance

Case number

HCMA12/2019

The appeal fails because the trial judge lawfully and reasonably compared voice recordings and accepted both audio and witness recognition identifying the appellant, the refusal to allow detailed questioning on the witness's prior convictions did not render the trial unfair as those details lacked direct relevance to credibility, the expert and factual evidence supported a finding that the appellant acted in the capacity of a triad member to control the taxi rank, and the six-month custodial sentence was not manifestly excessive given the need to deter such conduct.

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• Triad-related offence
• Voice identification
• Witness credibility and cross-examination
• Sentencing

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