10 Apr 1987
THE QUEEN v. TSUI LAI YING AND OTHERS
- Citation
- THE QUEEN v. TSUI LAI YING AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC406/1985
The Court held the Attorney General possessed power (prerogative and common law, supplemented by statutory provisions) to grant conditional immunities and that judicial inquiry into such executive discretion is permissible only in exceptional cases; on the facts the trial judge did not err in admitting the immunised accomplice evidence generally, but material misdirections occurred in treating statutory presumptions as corroboration, rendering convictions of D3, D4 and D11 unsafe — those convictions were quashed and retrials ordered on the substantive possession counts; appeals of D1, D6, D8…