9 Sept 1987
THE QUEEN v. CHAN KAM TAK AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- THE QUEEN v. CHAN KAM TAK AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC204/1987
The Court held the convictions were unsafe: (1) the palm-print expert evidence was admissible but was inadequately presented (characteristics not pointed out to the jury) making it of questionable weight; (2) the trial judge misdirected the jury on the presumption of possession in respect of Count 1 and thereby confused the facts about actual possession; (3) several items relied upon as potential corroboration were only incriminating if the co-accused's testimony was accepted and thus could not independently corroborate; taken together these defects rendered both convictions unsafe, so convic…