12 Jan 1988
LEUNG KAM KWONG v. THE QUEEN
- Citation
- LEUNG KAM KWONG v. THE QUEEN
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA1041/1987
Detention in a Drug Addiction Treatment Centre is a custodial sentence; imposing such a custodial order for a single-punch common assault causing only superficial abrasions was wrong in principle and manifestly excessive, therefore the sentence was quashed and substituted to effect immediate release (time served).