13 May 1976
TSANG CHEUK LUN v. THE QUEEN
- Citation
- TSANG CHEUK LUN v. THE QUEEN
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC444/1976
The sentence should be reduced to allow release today because, although the conduct was serious and deterrence justified immediate custody in general, the specific circumstances (a non‑persisted allegation and apparent stupidity rather than malice, and about one month already served) warranted mitigation of the four month sentence while upholding the need for deterrence in future cases.