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Hong Kong Case Law

Corrosive injury

  • 4 Sept 2008

    HKSAR v. NGAI PIK LING

    Citation
    HKSAR v. NGAI PIK LING
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC242/2007

    The 6-year imprisonment was justified: the judge reasonably adopted a 10-year starting point for the gravity of the acid attack, reduced it for the plea and the applicant's mental condition, and updated psychiatric evidence showed inpatient psychiatric treatment was unnecessary so a Hospital Order was inappropriate; therefore the sentence stands.

  • 27 Apr 1974

    MAK YUN KIM v. THE QUEEN

    Citation
    MAK YUN KIM v. THE QUEEN
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC261/1974

    The court held the first ground failed because throwing hydrochloric acid causing facial burns was a serious offence and the provocation did not render the six-month sentence excessive; the second ground succeeded because the District Judge had made an expressed intention about release that was inconsistent with the imposed term, warranting quashing the six-month sentence and substituting a sentence to allow immediate release while preserving the binding over order.