29 Jan 1999
HKSAR v. KONG KWONG SAN
- Citation
- HKSAR v. KONG KWONG SAN
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC135/1998
The Court held there was no legal error: Lord Goff's approach in Luc Thiet Thuan correctly construes the statute such that mental infirmity reducing self‑control is not attributed to the reasonable person for provocation; there were no relevant characteristics requiring a Camplin direction; the trial judge adequately placed background and history before the jury; the judge properly exercised discretion on late deliberations; and the mortuary photographs were sufficiently probative. Accordingly the conviction was safe and the application dismissed.