7 Jan 1987
THE QUEEN v. WAN PUI HAY
- Citation
- THE QUEEN v. WAN PUI HAY
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC471/1986
The Court held that the Government Chemist's certificate was admissible and retained prima facie weight under s.25(1)(b) and that an expert analyst may lawfully rely on an accepted published standard (here the United States Pharmacopoeia) as part of his opinion without that reliance amounting to inadmissible hearsay; because there was no challenge to the reliability of the standard, the conviction was upheld.