18 Sept 2018
HKSAR v. KILIMA ABUBAKAR ABBAS
- Citation
- [2018] HKCA 602
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC143/2016
The Court corrected the arithmetic starting point but held the established Hong Kong tariff regime remains applicable: courier status is not ordinarily mitigating and starting points should be arithmetically calculated and then adjusted for recognised aggravating or mitigating factors; assistance that is of practical/useful value to authorities merits allowance by increasing the guilty-plea discount (subject to proper Sivan procedure assessment), and limited discount may be given for participation in Father Wotherspoon's campaign; on the facts the trial judge's overall discount produced an ap…