18 Aug 1993
R. v. LEE CHI WAI and Others
- Citation
- R. v. LEE CHI WAI and Others
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC306/1992
By majority the convictions were unsafe: the trial judge's references to inadmissible hearsay (opinion about the sworn brother's non-involvement) and leaving open an inference from an acquitted co-defendant's ambiguous out-of-court statement that 'rape was going on', taken with weaknesses and inconsistencies in the complainant's account, cumulatively prejudiced the jury such that convictions and sentences had to be quashed and set aside.