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Hong Kong Case Law

Recklessness (cunningham v caldwell)
  • 16 May 2003

    HKSAR v. OH EUGENE JAE-HOON

    Citation
    HKSAR v. OH EUGENE JAE-HOON
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMA369/2002

    The magistrate properly applied the Cunningham test to the assault and Caldwell to the criminal damage; credible independent eyewitness evidence established that the appellant threw rocks that caused PW1 to apprehend immediate unlawful violence and that one rock damaged PW2's parked car; self-defence was not available on the facts; alleged tape tampering and non-disclosure did not materially prejudice the defence. Consequently the convictions were upheld and the appeal dismissed.