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Hong Kong Case Law

Employee theft

  • 20 Apr 2023

    香港特別行政區 訴 周展龍

    Citation
    [2023] HKCA 566
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC81/2022

    The Court refused leave because the trial judge correctly applied established sentencing guidelines using the retail value of the processed goods, properly rejected the Rapaport figures as inappropriate, treated resale proceeds and recovery by the employer as not determinative of the sentencing starting point, and had already reflected the applicant's cooperation by allowing the appropriate plea reduction; the 9‑year total sentence was not manifestly excessive.

  • 5 Feb 1979

    ATTORNEY GENERAL v. CHAN SUK LIN KATHY

    Citation
    ATTORNEY GENERAL v. CHAN SUK LIN KATHY
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CAAR2/1979

    The daughter's suspended sentence was set aside and replaced by immediate 12 months' imprisonment because her prolonged, large-scale, deceptive defalcations for self-enrichment (despite partial reparation and low salary) made immediate custody appropriate; the mother's suspended sentence was upheld because her offences were materially smaller, occurred later, and she had mitigating personal circumstances amounting to substantially lesser culpability.