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Hong Kong Case Law

Sequence of events / single transaction rule
  • 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…