31 Aug 1998
HKSAR v. LAI WAI
- Citation
- HKSAR v. LAI WAI
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC50/1998
The court found that significant procedural and professional failings by the applicant's legal representatives — including failure to take and record instructions, failure to comply with rule r.5(d), leaving critical advice to an unqualified clerk, not obtaining relevant medical evidence and failing to put key accusations (police frame-up and planting of evidence) to prosecution witnesses — undermined the fairness of the trial and rendered the convictions unsafe.