17 Dec 1997
HKSAR v. CHAN HING CHI
- Citation
- HKSAR v. CHAN HING CHI
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC375/1997
The conviction was quashed because cross-examination and answers relating to bad character (including disclosure of an acquittal) and the trial judge's failure to give the required directions on bad character, together with material factual misstatements in the summing-up and inappropriate judicial interruptions, produced material irregularities that rendered the conviction unsafe; a retrial was ordered.