31 Oct 2022
HKSAR v. CHAN CHU LEUNG
- Citation
- [2022] HKCA 1222
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC160/2010
The Court held that the limited cross-examination about non-disclosure of 'Ah Chu' should not have been permitted but the trial judge's repeated, emphatic directions explaining the right to silence and expressly directing the jury to ignore that part of evidence cured any prejudice; cross-examination on alleged fabrication of fluorescent powder and lack of complaint was permissible in context; the summing-up fairly addressed inferential reasoning and the defence case; and continuing the trial despite two co-accused absences was proper with appropriate jury directions — accordingly the convict…