14 Feb 1990
THE QUEEN v. NGAI MAN
- Citation
- THE QUEEN v. NGAI MAN
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA1373/1989
The conviction was unsafe because the principal evidential foundation for recklessness — the expert's estimated speed — lacked necessary evidentiary foundation and methodology, was partly based on inadmissible hearsay and omitted critical data and calculations, thereby undermining the magistrate's reliance on that opinion to establish recklessness; appeal allowed and conviction set aside.