14 Sept 2021
HKSAR v. WONG ZHI
- Citation
- [2021] HKCA 1216
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC232/2018
The appeal was allowed because the judge failed to give the jury the mandatory, unambiguous step-by-step direction required by Specimen Direction 39.1 when assessing an alleged oral admission and the limited use of a post-record; that omission rendered the conviction unsafe and necessitated a retrial on a fresh indictment.