23 Feb 1999
HKSAR v. WONG CHI LAI, JEFF
- Citation
- HKSAR v. WONG CHI LAI, JEFF
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC349/1998
The Court exercised its statutory power under s.83A Criminal Procedure Ordinance to substitute the original deception/obtaining-property charges with offences that the evidence properly disclosed (attempt to obtain a pecuniary advantage under s.18 Theft Ordinance in CACC293/1998 and theft of things in action under s.9 Theft Ordinance in CACC349/1998), because the substituted offences were those a trial judge could properly have convicted on and no injustice would result; accordingly leave was granted and convictions and sentences were substituted but sentences remained identical to those orig…