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Baskerville test
  • 28 Feb 1991

    THE QUEEN v. LAW WAI HONG AND OTHERS

    Citation
    THE QUEEN v. LAW WAI HONG AND OTHERS
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC491/1989

    The Court held the convictions were safe: (1) the trial judge properly directed the jury on accomplice evidence and corroboration; (2) the cautioned statement of D3 was capable of amounting to corroboration under the Baskerville test because it went beyond mere presence and showed attachment to the robbery; (3) the amendment and preferment of the trial indictment to include D2 on count 5 was not a nullity where the judge consented to the preferment, there was no prejudice or injustice to the accused, and the order effectively regularised the voluntary bill process in the circumstances; accord…