27 Jan 2022
香港特別行政區 訴 譚少怡
- Citation
- [2022] HKCFI 304
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA261/2021
Appellate court found the magistrate erred by implicitly shifting the burden to the defendant to negate a motive to fabricate, by rejecting defence evidence without identifying specific contradictions or illogicalities, and by failing to properly address the prosecution witness's potential motive; those errors rendered the convictions unsafe and required quashing of convictions and sentences.