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Hong Kong Case Law

Severance of indictment
  • 14 Jan 1987

    THE QUEEN v. LEE SHUN CHUNG AND OTHERS

    Citation
    THE QUEEN v. LEE SHUN CHUNG AND OTHERS
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC359/1986

    The Court held that the robbery convictions stood because there was adequate identification and forensic evidence, and the trial judge's summing-up safeguarded the appellants against prejudice from joinder or co-accused statements in the absence of any application at trial; however the rape convictions for Lee Shun-chung and Lam Kwai-ping were quashed because there was insufficient evidence establishing their presence at the location and time of the rapes or their attitude to the acts, making those convictions unsafe.