24 Jul 1997
HKSAR v. LAI KWAI WAH AND OTHERS
- Citation
- HKSAR v. LAI KWAI WAH AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA268/1997
The magistrate's conduct taken as a whole — invitation-like remarks about guilty pleas, extensive and disruptive interventions during cross-examination, and procedural departures that impeded defence examination — demonstrated failure to meet required standards of fairness and impartiality; consequently the convictions were not safe and were quashed.