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Hong Kong Case Law

Confession as mitigation

  • 8 Jul 1983

    THE QUEEN v. CHAN CHI-YUEN

    Citation
    THE QUEEN v. CHAN CHI-YUEN
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CAAR8/1983

    The Court allowed the Attorney General's application, finding the District Court sentence manifestly inadequate for multiple in-premises armed robberies; it adopted the established higher sentencing range (5-6 years) but reduced that range by substantial discounts for the respondent's prompt confession and guilty plea and an additional discount applicable on review, and therefore set aside the original sentence and substituted concurrent sentences of 2 years and 9 months on each count.

  • 17 Dec 1968

    WONG KEUNG v. THE QUEEN

    Citation
    WONG KEUNG v. THE QUEEN
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC712/1968

    Because the magistrate did not give sufficient weight to the appellant's prior confession to an unreported offence (a strongly mitigating circumstance), the court substituted three months' imprisonment for the nine months on the second count and ordered that the two sentences run concurrently, resulting in a total detention of six months.