24 Nov 2000
CHAN PUN CHUNG AND ANOTHER v. HKSAR
- Citation
- CHAN PUN CHUNG AND ANOTHER v. HKSAR
- Court
- Court of Final Appeal
- Case number
- FACC3/2000
The certified question is answered in the negative: s.159E(1) does not preclude prosecution after 2 August 1996 of conspiracies committed before that date but not covered by s.159E(7); the court may adopt a remedial construction to preserve the evident legislative intention that criminal conspiracies existing before the statutory reform remain prosecutable, the omission in the transitional provision being a drafting error to be cured by purposive interpretation.