29 Nov 2005
LAW CHUNG KI AND ANOTHER v. HKSAR
- Citation
- LAW CHUNG KI AND ANOTHER v. HKSAR
- Court
- Court of Final Appeal
- Case number
- FACC3/2005
The convictions were unsafe because prosecuting counsel improperly cross-examined the 1st accused on his antecedent statement, the trial judge misdirected the jury on how to approach defence evidence (failing to instruct that defence evidence creating reasonable doubt requires acquittal) and failed to give an appropriate cut-throat defence direction; those cumulative errors warranted quashing the convictions and ordering retrials.