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Hong Kong Case Law

Mitigation (financial pressure)
  • 13 Jan 2006

    HKSAR v. LEE MAN WAI

    Citation
    HKSAR v. LEE MAN WAI
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC386/2005

    The Court held the judge's starting point of 16 years for approximately 481.63g of methamphetamine was appropriate within the tariff, the one-third reduction for the guilty plea was correctly applied yielding an 11-year sentence, and financial pressure is not a mitigating factor sufficient to reduce an otherwise appropriate sentence; therefore the application for leave to appeal was dismissed.