Hong Kong Case Law: Decisions & Judgments

Topic

Conspiracy to pervert course of public justice

Legal area

Court

28 Jun 2010

MANDY CHUI v. HKSAR

Citation

MANDY CHUI v. HKSAR
Court

Court of Final Appeal
Case number

FACC4/2009

Convictions quashed where essential elements were not lawfully proved or conviction was not inevitable: Chui and Lam convictions for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice were quashed because the prosecution failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt the necessary knowledge/belief and intent and relied on evidence improperly established (including matters attested by a single witness contrary to s.43); Chui's attempted perjury conviction was quashed because conviction was not inevitable given the lawful evidence; prosecution appeal against quashing of Egan's s.17 convictions dismissed due…
9 Aug 2005

SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE v. CHUNG WAI SING AND OTHERS

Citation

SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE v. CHUNG WAI SING AND OTHERS
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCMA225/2004

The magistrate erred in importing into Rule III obligations that do not exist; the printed caution administered at charging and contemporaneous conduct did not render the written replies involuntary as a matter of law; showing parts of the surveillance videotape during investigatory cautioned interviews did not breach Rule VI because the interviews occurred at investigatory stage governed by Rule I; absent specific evidence of oppression and where voluntariness was not challenged at trial for particular interviews, the exclusion of the interviews and charge-sheet replies was unsupportable and…
2 Apr 2004

TSE, NICHOLAS v. HKSAR

Citation

TSE, NICHOLAS v. HKSAR
Court

Court of Final Appeal
Case number

FAMC16/2004

The application for leave to appeal was dismissed because the applicant failed to show it was reasonably arguable that a substantial and grave injustice occurred; the magistrate and the appeal judge properly evaluated the evidence and there was sufficient evidence to infer the applicant was party to the conspiracy.

Hong Kong Case Law

MANDY CHUI v. HKSAR

SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE v. CHUNG WAI SING AND OTHERS

TSE, NICHOLAS v. HKSAR