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Hong Kong Case Law

Judicial advocacy
  • 14 May 1982

    HON HOI-WAH AND ANOTHER v. THE QUEEN

    Citation
    HON HOI-WAH AND ANOTHER v. THE QUEEN
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC663/1981

    Although the trial judge's summing-up contained emphatic advocacy and a minor misdirection of fact, read as a whole it did not deny the appellants a fair trial; the judge gave appropriate warnings (including that facts were for the jury and about accomplice evidence) and the underlying facts and evidence were sufficiently strong that the jury would have been persuaded on the evidence alone; therefore the convictions were safe and the appeal was dismissed.