1 Jun 2006
HKSAR v. WONG TAI SHING
- Citation
- HKSAR v. WONG TAI SHING
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC234/2005
The appeal was allowed because the trial judge, while entitled to take judicial notice of an addict's average daily heroin consumption, improperly took judicial notice of technical factual matters (that consumers would not use heroin in almost pure block form and that adulteration requires special skill) without evidence or authoritative sources; those unsupported findings were material to the conviction and rendered it unsafe, warranting quashing of the conviction and ordering a retrial.