11 Dec 2014
HKSAR v. SINGH GURSEWAK
- Citation
- HKSAR v. SINGH GURSEWAK
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC399/2013
The judge miscarried in exercising her discretion to try an unrepresented defendant in his absence by failing to consider the full range of Heyward/Jones factors and to identify what was 'rare and exceptional' about the case; that irregularity rendered the trial unfair and the convictions unsafe, requiring quashing and an expedited retrial.