20 Dec 2000
HKSAR v. CHAN SAI CHIU
- Citation
- HKSAR v. CHAN SAI CHIU
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC213/2000
Court held that the judge was entitled to adopt a higher starting point (five years) because of the applicant's persistent offending and the vulnerability of the victim, but erred in principle by reducing the guilty-plea discount to 25% on the basis that the applicant was caught virtually red-handed; the appropriate discount for the timely plea was one-third, and the appeal was allowed in part with a five-month reduction to the sentence, resulting in three years and four months imprisonment.