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Endangering railway safety
  • 22 Jan 2021

    香港特別行政區 訴 盧佩瑤

    Citation
    [2021] HKCFI 145
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMA247/2020

    The Court held the sentencing judge did not err in principle in imposing concurrent custodial sentences of 2 and 8 months (total 8 months) given the seriousness, scale and potential danger to railway operations and passengers; probation report recommendations are not binding and did not create an enforceable expectation of a non-custodial sentence; although the magistrate's application of juvenile participation as aggravation was partly misplaced as to this appellant, that error did not render the overall sentence disproportionate and the total 8-month concurrent term was appropriate and main…