Hong Kong Case Law: Decisions & Judgments | LexChat

Topic

Sentencing concurrency and totality

Legal area

Court

21 Dec 2000

HKSAR v. SZETO CHI WAI

Citation

HKSAR v. SZETO CHI WAI
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCMA1009/2000

The court dismissed the appeal against conviction, granted leave to appeal out of time against sentence, upheld the 6-month sentence for the present offence but adjusted concurrency under the totality principle so that 3 months (not 2) of the 6-month sentence is to be served concurrently with the activated suspended 6-month sentence, reducing total imprisonment from 10 to 9 months.
10 Jan 1970

WONG WING KOON v. THE QUEEN

Citation

WONG WING KOON v. THE QUEEN
Court

Court of Appeal
Case number

CACC649/1969

The Full Court held that the evidence (witness testimony including Fong and Chan, certified registration photostats and photographs) sufficiently established the appellant's guilty knowledge and that the appellant corruptly received payments and uttered a forged document; the documents were admissible under the Registration of Persons provisions; the judge was aware of accomplice dangers and the failure to expressly label the second accused as an accomplice did not show he was not so treated; the indictment was adequate and conviction could stand despite acquittal of the second accused; accor…