17 Jun 2002
HKSAR v. CHIU PING KEI
- Citation
- HKSAR v. CHIU PING KEI
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC476/2001
The deputy judge's imposition of three wholly consecutive 4-year terms (12 years total) was manifestly excessive because he applied an incorrect procedural approach to totality; the correct method is to set appropriate sentences for each offence and then adjust the aggregate. Applying that method, allowing proper guilty plea discount and respecting the need to avoid a crushing total, the court substituted sentences of 4 years 5 months on each count and rearranged concurrency/consecutive ordering to produce a total effective sentence of 9 years.