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Precedent chan chi-ming
  • 30 May 1984

    THE QUEEN v. YEUNG YING KAN AND ANOTHER

    Citation
    THE QUEEN v. YEUNG YING KAN AND ANOTHER
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC120/1984

    The Court refused leave to appeal and held that direct trafficking is more serious than possession for the purpose of unlawful trafficking; therefore the CHAN Chi-ming tariffs for possession-for-purpose do not apply to direct trafficking. Quantity is relevant but not determinative; addiction in these facts was aggravating. The existing sentences (Yeung 4 years, Lam 5 years) were not sufficiently low to justify interference.

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