2 Nov 1993
WONG LEE v. THE QUEEN
- Citation
- WONG LEE v. THE QUEEN
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA343/1993
The court held that s.109A is directory rather than mandatory and that, although there was no error in principle in imposing 15 months for illegal remaining and 3 months for theft consecutively, the accumulated mitigating circumstances (youth, hunger, lack of antecedents, family circumstances) justified, as an act of mercy, ordering the 3‑month theft sentence to run concurrently with the 15‑month immigration sentence; leave to appeal against sentence was granted and the sentence varied accordingly.