28 Jan 2014
HKSAR v. MA KWOK FAI
- Citation
- HKSAR v. MA KWOK FAI
- Court
- Court of Final Appeal
- Case number
- FACC1/2013
Where an assault is a single continuous attack comprising multiple blows, the jury must be directed to consider all the circumstances, including all blows, when inferring the defendant's intent; on the facts the trial judge's direction to consider the attack as a whole was proper, but subsequent admissible psychiatric evidence established diminished responsibility and justified substituting the murder verdict with manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility and confirming a hospital order.