22 Mar 1994
ATTORNEY GENERAL v. CHAN PIU SANG and Another
- Citation
- ATTORNEY GENERAL v. CHAN PIU SANG and Another
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CAAR16/1993
The trial judge erred in starting with an overall sentence and then apportioning it; the correct approach is to fix appropriate individual sentences for each offence, then consider totality and mitigation. The original sentences were manifestly inadequate for the criminality involved. The Court substituted higher terms: for Chan Piu Sang (1st respondent) 1 year on the 1st charge and 3 years on the 3rd charge to run consecutively (total 4 years); for Chung Kwok On (2nd respondent) 1 year on the 2nd charge and 2 years on the 13th charge to run concurrently (total 2 years). These substitutions r…