10 Aug 1979
TSUI CHUNG-LEUNG v. THE QUEEN
- Citation
- TSUI CHUNG-LEUNG v. THE QUEEN
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC414/1979
A court should specify a period in a hospital order only where psychiatric specialists, having examined the patient, can confidently state the likely period until fitness for release; absent that confidence the order should be indefinite, with release governed by medical recommendation and the statutory release procedures.