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Bail and breach of bail
  • 20 Apr 2022

    香港特別行政區 訴 譚得志

    Citation
    [2022] HKDC 343
    Court
    District Court
    Case number
    DCCC928/2020

    Court found the offences, committed in the context of major public disorder and including reoffending while on bail and after the National Security Law, warranted immediate custodial sentences. The court fixed individual terms (Count 1: 2 years; seven seditious counts aggregated to 21 months with specified concurrency; Count 6: 18 months with partial concurrency; Count 3: 1 month concurrent; Count 8: fine HKD5000) and applied concurrency/totality adjustments to an effective total sentence of 40 months imprisonment and a fine of HKD5000; mitigation claims (religion, education, political motive…