11 Jan 2018
Where circumstantial evidence and the recording itself provide a prima facie provenance and no signs of tampering, the recording is admissible; appellate courts must defer to magistrates' credibility and factual findings absent a plain error; on those bases the CCTV (P4) was admissible and the conviction stands.
27 Apr 2016
上訴得直。裁判官在庭上未能清楚交代量刑起點及認罪扣減屬程序上之錯誤，但高院重訂量刑：採納6個月為起點，因認罪給予三分之一扣減降為4個月，並因受害人挑釁酌情減1個月為3個月；原緩刑中2星期監禁應與本案刑期同期執行，故最終總刑期為3個月。
14 Feb 2012
The appeal was dismissed because the sentencing magistrate had properly considered reports, the appellant's prior conviction and reoffending, lack of remorse, and the need for long-term disciplinary training; given the appellant's youth the training centre order served the primary purpose of rehabilitation and was not excessive, so the original sentence was upheld.
2 Dec 2004
The trial judge correctly admitted the applicant's confessions as voluntary and there was no evidence he was so impaired by drugs as to render them unreliable; the victim's unwillingness to testify meant her evidence could not be relied on but did not undermine the confessions and medical evidence; the sentencing judge erred in reducing an otherwise appropriate individual sentence to satisfy the totality principle rather than imposing the appropriate sentence and structuring concurrency/continuity, therefore the Court quashed the 4-year sentence on the third charge and substituted a 6-year te…
5 Mar 1997
On the admitted facts the applicant inflicted serious and disproportionate violence causing significant burns and scarring; the trial judge properly weighed mitigation and discounts and was entitled to impose custodial sentences; the sentence of 20 months and $10,000 compensation is not manifestly excessive.
31 Oct 1978
Conviction quashed because the magistrate had rejected the victims' evidence yet convicted the appellant based essentially on an improperly admitted voluntary statement ('I kept watch') without independent evidence linking him to the assaults, rendering the verdict unsafe and unsatisfactory.