14 Oct 2022
香港特別行政區 訴 黃慧敏
- Citation
- [2022] HKCFI 3136
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA228/2022
The High Court held that immediate imprisonment was a permissible and proportionate response given the public health risk and need for deterrence but reduced the magistrate's starting point to reflect current pandemic circumstances and granted the appellant a one‑third guilty plea discount, resulting in a 10‑day immediate custodial sentence; the application to admit fresh evidence was refused because the material was either already before the lower court or immaterial and no reasonable explanation was given for late production.