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  • 30 Sept 2020

    HKSAR v. CASTILLO CAICEDO TERESA

    Citation
    [2020] HKCA 797
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC212/2017

    Leave to appeal was granted because there existed a credible and material conflict of accounts between the applicant and her former advisers about whether mitigation evidence (participation in the anti-drug campaign and a letter from Father Wotherspoon) was known and deliberately not put before the sentencing judge; that conflict, if resolved in the applicant's favor, made it reasonably arguable that she did not receive a fair sentencing process and justified appellate investigation and resolution of credibility by the Full Court.