17 Feb 2023
HKSAR v. C.H.P. AND OTHERS
- Citation
- [2023] HKCA 216
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC89/2021
The Court held the trial judge's directions on causation, sequence of events and intent were legally sound and complied with authoritative specimen directions; the single transaction rule applied so no further technical definition of "sequence" was required; no Woollin/Nedrick or Kevin Brown directions were necessitated on these facts; joinder and admission of evidence concerning the other child's ill-treatment were proper and not prejudicial given emphatic limiting directions; sentences imposed were proportionate and not manifestly excessive. Accordingly leave to appeal was refused and all a…