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Topic

Circumstantial evidence of death

Legal area

Court

3 Oct 1979

RE LAI SANG

Citation

RE LAI SANG
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCMP517/1979

The Full Bench held that the circumstantial evidence was sufficient to infer the death of the alleged victim and that there was sufficient admissible and corroborated evidence to justify committal for trial of each applicant; the confessions admitted were properly treated as voluntary but even without them committal would have been ordered, therefore the habeas corpus applications were dismissed.
3 Oct 1979

RE WAN KAM LAP

Citation

RE WAN KAM LAP
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCMP515/1979

The Full Bench held the magistrate correctly found there was sufficient admissible evidence on which a properly directed jury could convict of murder (including circumstantial proof of death and corroborative testimony), the confessions were properly admitted as voluntary, and even excluding the confessions the evidence justified committal; therefore the habeas corpus applications were dismissed.