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Topic

Value of goods

Legal area

Court

25 Jul 2003

HKSAR v. LIU SHING LAP

Citation

HKSAR v. LIU SHING LAP
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCMA616/2003

The appeal court held that although offences of this type can warrant immediate imprisonment, the magistrate failed to give sufficient credit to the appellant's background reports and lack of knowledge/benefit; consequently the appropriate sentence was reduced from seven months to three months imprisonment.
17 May 1988

THE QUEEN v. LAW CHI KONG

Citation

THE QUEEN v. LAW CHI KONG
Court

Court of Appeal
Case number

CACC491/1987

The conviction was upheld because the primary evidence—proprietor discovering strangers moving his goods, police recovery of the goods, and the occupier's admission that he bought the goods from the applicant—gave a sufficient basis for conviction; the discrepancy in the goods' valuation affected only sentence and did not undermine identification or guilt, so the appeal was dismissed.