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Cautioned interview/confession admissibility
  • 30 Jun 2020

    香港特別行政區 訴 郭健明

    Citation
    [2020] HKCA 543
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC276/2018

    The application for leave to appeal was refused because the trial judge gave correct and adequate directions on the voluntariness and exclusion of recorded interviews, on the fairness of the identification parade, and on the limited probative value of the hat and CCTV; the central disputes of credibility and identity were properly left to the jury, which was entitled to reject the confessions, accept the identification for count 4 and conclude by lawful comparison of CCTV that the offender in count 3 was the same person, and there was no arguable misdirection or legal error warranting leave.