21 Mar 2024
HKSAR v. LO LAI CHAU
- Citation
- [2024] HKCA 170
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC191/2022
Leave to appeal was refused because there was no proper evidential basis on the trial evidence to require a self‑defence direction; the Judge correctly instructed on 'unlawful' killing and burden of proof, the summing‑up fairly presented and assessed competing evidence and credibility, and no special inferential direction was required for post‑offence statements which constituted direct evidence of state of mind.