21 Oct 2000
HKSAR v. CHAN KWOK HUNG
- Citation
- HKSAR v. CHAN KWOK HUNG
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA710/2000
The court allowed the appeal in part: the magistrate’s aggregate custodial disposition was excessive given the guilty pleas and sentencing principles; the magistrate’s reference to a 4‑year term was a remark about lack of jurisdiction but did not invalidate sentencing review; the total sentence was reduced to 2 years by making only 2 months on offences 2–7 consecutive to the first and by running the obscene article sentence concurrently. The costs orders (HK$40,000) were set aside because there was no proper basis to award significant costs to the prosecution in the absence of demonstrated ad…