23 May 2014
HKSAR v. LAU Man Hong
- Citation
- HKSAR v. LAU Man Hong
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC237/2013
The Court held the trial judge erred by treating the applicant's signature on the post-record as an admission that drugs were found on his person and by drawing adverse inferences from his exercise of the right to silence and from possession of two phones without proper cross-examination; those material irregularities rendered the conviction unsafe and required quashing, with a retrial ordered.