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.