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Hong Kong Case Law

Youth/mitigation
  • 17 Jan 1983

    YEUNG DAVID v. THE QUEEN

    Citation
    YEUNG DAVID v. THE QUEEN
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC1212/1982

    The appeal was dismissed because the prosecution was properly brought, there were no wholly exceptional humanitarian considerations to justify non-recording under section 36, and the magistrate's sentence of a $250 fine with a recorded conviction was appropriate; the court endorsed the approach that convictions should generally be recorded except in rare cases where prosecution should not have been brought.