3 Jul 2001
HKSAR v. CHIK WAI MING WHITMAN
- Citation
- HKSAR v. CHIK WAI MING WHITMAN
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA626/2000
Although the appellate court accepted the trial magistrate's factual findings generally, fairness required that the appellant's husband, who had been intended as a defence witness, be allowed to testify; the failure to have him called at trial justified quashing the conviction and ordering a retrial before another magistrate as an exception to the normal rule of deference to trial findings.