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Topic

Sentencing guidelines (so man king)

Legal area

Court

6 Dec 2005

HKSAR v. CHAN MAN

Citation

HKSAR v. CHAN MAN
Court

Court of Appeal
Case number

CACC359/2005

Leave to appeal out of time was granted; the court found no aggravating factors to justify enhancing the sentence above the So Man King guideline of 15 months; the sentence for the immigration offence was reduced from 18 months to 15 months and the total sentence adjusted to 4 years 7 months imprisonment.
8 May 2001

HKSAR v. Muhammed ARSHAD

Citation

HKSAR v. Muhammed ARSHAD
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCMA69/2001

Appeal dismissed because the sentencing magistrate applied correct principles and appropriate starting points under So Man King, there were no compelling humanitarian grounds to reduce the sentence and the alleged medical evidence was insufficient; therefore the imposed concurrent sentences with activation of the one-month suspended sentence to run consecutively (total 22 months) were not excessive or wrong in principle.