14 Jul 2015
HKSAR v. TAI LAI YEE
- Citation
- HKSAR v. TAI LAI YEE
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA829/2012
The magistrate correctly accepted the prosecution's primary facts that a registration bearing the appellant's particulars was submitted and someone produced an HKID matching those particulars at the polling station; the officers performed a permissible visual matching exercise (not expert identification); the hypothesis of an impostor using a fake HKID was fanciful and implausible given the handwriting and registration evidence, so the irresistible inference that the appellant was involved was properly drawn; there was no reversal of burden and the 3-month custodial sentence was not excessive…