11 Dec 2025
SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE v. TAI TIN HO, ZAFAR AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- [2025] HKCA 1109
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CAAR4/2023
The Court held that (1) the redaction of the jury note and the provision of a typed written answer without recalling the jury did not, on the facts and having seen the unredacted note, amount to a material irregularity or miscarriage of justice and the convictions were safe; and (2) the sentencing judge erred in principle by failing to treat the display of a firearm and other aggravating factors as warranting a higher starting point, so the original sentences were quashed and substituted with materially higher terms on review under s81A CPO (D1: 10 years; D2: 9.5 years, with modest reductions…