Hong Kong Case Law: Decisions & Judgments | LexChat

Topic

Section 54(1)(b) criminal procedure ordinance

Legal area

Court

29 May 2025

HKSAR v. HUANG RUIFANG

Citation

[2025] HKCA 509
Court

Court of Appeal
Case number

CACC106/2022

The Court certified only the first question in reformulated form (adding remedies) as a point of law of great and general importance under s32(2) Cap 484 because the Court was divided and there is apparent divergence in authority; the second and third questions were not certified because the second did not arise from the judgments and the third raised settled proviso law not requiring certification.
16 Oct 2017

HKSAR v. AZAD MOHAMMAD FARHAN

Citation

HKSAR v. AZAD MOHAMMAD FARHAN
Court

Court of Appeal
Case number

CACC173/2015

Application for certification was refused because it was filed many months out of time without good reason and because no point of law of great and general importance arose: the audibility complaint was not substantiated and had been raised and resolved at trial, juror evidence was not justified, s54(1)(b) was inapplicable as the applicant gave evidence, and the trial judge's directions adequately addressed any suggestion of adverse inference from failure to call alibi witnesses.