19 May 2000
SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE v. WONG YIN TAK AND OTHERS
- Citation
- SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE v. WONG YIN TAK AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CAAR9/1999
The training centre orders, while originally defensible because time already served plus expected training centre detention equated to a substantive custodial period and allowed rehabilitation, were rendered wrong in principle by subsequent administrative removal of respondents to remand custody (so training centre time would not count), producing unfairness and undermining the sentencing rationale; parity with the adult co-defendant and sentencing principles required substituting determinate prison sentences, and the court (majority) imposed 3 years 11 months imprisonment on each respondent…