4 Jun 1998
HKSAR v. KUNG SUEN
- Citation
- HKSAR v. KUNG SUEN
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC53/1998
The Court accepted the judge's approach of identifying objective starting points (three years for each burglary), applying the totality principle to set a combined starting point of five years, and then deducting 18 months for guilty pleas to arrive at a total effective sentence of 3.5 years; the Court held that, despite force in the applicant's contention, 3.5 years was the correct total sentence and dismissed the appeal.