17 Apr 1996
ATTORNEY GENERAL v. CHAN WAI MAN
- Citation
- ATTORNEY GENERAL v. CHAN WAI MAN
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CAAR21/1995
The Court held that the offender's youth, lack of prior convictions, adverse social background, supportive family and a correctional report indicating suitability for training constituted cogent/exceptional reasons to depart from Mo Kwong-sang and to uphold the training centre detention imposed by the trial judge rather than impose imprisonment.