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Hong Kong Case Law

Prisoner medical condition
  • 14 Aug 1996

    HO MEI LIN v. R.

    Citation
    HO MEI LIN v. R.
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC217/1996

    Leave to appeal was refused because the five year sentence was squarely within the applicable tariff and properly imposed, the applicant failed to establish an evidential foundation for her medical complaints sufficient to disturb the sentence, and ill health does not ordinarily justify reduction of a proper sentence but is a matter for the Executive except in the rarest cases.