21 Dec 2018
HKSAR v. CHAN CHI HO LINCOLN
- Citation
- [2018] HKCFA 64
- Court
- Court of Final Appeal
- Case number
- FACC18/2018
Post-conviction material that, if true, may show the defendant is not guilty can found the exercise of the court’s discretion to permit withdrawal of an unequivocal guilty plea before sentence; the trial court must consider that discretion in the interests of justice rather than treating an unequivocal plea as conclusive; on the facts the exercise of discretion should have allowed reversal and the conviction was quashed.