Hong Kong Case Law

12 Feb 1999

HKSAR v. FUNG SIU CHUNG

Citation

HKSAR v. FUNG SIU CHUNG

Court

Court of First Instance

Case number

HCMA1159/1998

The magistrate properly directed himself on voluntariness and dissipation of the effect of the threat, made factual findings entitled to deference (including demeanour and short time interval), and permissibly supplemented oral reasons with an explanatory written statement; therefore the post‑caution admissions and edited written statement were admissible and the conviction stands.

• Admissibility of confession
• Voluntariness of statement
• Caution and post‑caution statements
• Threat of arrest
• Judicial bias
• Supplemental reasons by magistrate