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Hong Kong Case Law

Detention centre vs imprisonment
  • 16 Mar 1982

    CHOI WAH-HING v. THE QUEEN

    Citation
    CHOI WAH-HING v. THE QUEEN
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC859/1981

    Although disparity alone will not justify interference where the sentence is otherwise proper, the disparity between the appellant's five years' imprisonment and his co-accused's detention centre treatment was so gross that the appellate court must intervene; accordingly the five-year sentence was set aside and substituted with three years' imprisonment.