8 Dec 1987
THE QUEEN v. WONG KWAI PUI
- Citation
- THE QUEEN v. WONG KWAI PUI
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA796/1987
The sentences of 18 months and 6 months as applied in precedent (R v Yu Wing Wut) were appropriate and not reduced for lack of evidence of changed circumstances; however magistrates lack statutory power to make partly concurrent/partly consecutive orders, so the second sentence must be reformulated to a wholly consecutive or wholly concurrent term; the court reduced the second sentence to 3 months to run consecutively to comply with statutory limits while preserving the same total effective sentence of 21 months.