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Hong Kong Case Law

Road rage

  • 16 Dec 2025

    香港特別行政區 訴 吳家浩

    Citation
    [2025] HKCFI 5859
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMA391/2024

    The Court dismissed the appeal: the trial judge's questioning fell within permissible bounds and did not deprive the appellant of a fair trial; the judge properly applied burden and precedent, reasonably rejected the appellant's account and accepted the complainant as credible; the evidence proved both counts of common assault beyond reasonable doubt; the sentence of three months for each count with a total effective term of five months (partly consecutive) was not manifestly excessive given the circumstances, prior record and deterrence considerations.

  • 28 Nov 2008

    HKSAR v. WAN CHUN YIP

    Citation
    HKSAR v. WAN CHUN YIP
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMA806/2008

    The learned Magistrate's assessment that PW1 was credible and that the prosecution proved beyond reasonable doubt that the appellant struck PW1 and that both parties took part in a fight was unimpeachable on appeal; self-defence did not arise on the evidence; given the facts and appellant's prior violent convictions the sentence of 18 weeks imprisonment was not manifestly excessive and was properly imposed.