26 Nov 2013
HKSAR v. ABDUL KARIM MOHAMED NAINAR
- Citation
- HKSAR v. ABDUL KARIM MOHAMED NAINAR
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC215/2013
The application for leave to appeal out of time was dismissed because the applicant failed to provide an acceptable explanation for an inordinate 6½ year delay and the proposed grounds lacked merit; the sentencing judge acted within discretion following prevailing guidelines (applying ecstasy benchmarks to ketamine), correctly treated importation as an aggravating factor and applied an appropriate one‑third discount for the guilty plea; the court exercised its s83W power to disallow one month of pre‑determination custody from reckoning against the sentence.