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Hong Kong Case Law

Separate trial / severance
  • 27 Apr 1993

    THE QUEEN v. LO MAN

    Citation
    THE QUEEN v. LO MAN
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMA118/1993

    The severance order did not mandate different magistrates and hearing the appellant before the same magistrate did not give rise to a reasonable suspicion of bias; the magistrate excluded other defendants' cases from his consideration. The magistrate's factual findings that the appellant authorised substantial work after being informed the estimate was rejected, that the work amounted to damage and that he intended or was reckless as to that damage were properly open on the evidence; accordingly the conviction was upheld and the sentence (6 months suspended for 2 years with $5,000 costs) was…