24 May 1996
THE QUEEN v. TSANG WAI-KI AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- THE QUEEN v. TSANG WAI-KI AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC568/1995
The admission of evidence that both appellants were heroin addicts was unlawful propensity evidence in breach of the Makin rule because possession was the central contested issue; the trial judge erred in admitting that evidence at the stage he did, creating a material irregularity that required quashing the convictions and ordering a retrial under s.83E C.P.O. Cap.221.