9 Jan 2024
香港特別行政區 訴 王雪花
- Citation
- [2024] HKCFI 112
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA238/2023
The appellant's plea was ambiguous because of reserved explanatory statements made at mitigation which could, if true, constitute a defence; a court must not accept an ambiguous plea and therefore the conviction and sentence were quashed and a retrial before another magistrate ordered as the appropriate remedy to safeguard judicial fairness.