14 Jul 1994
LAW YUI WO v. R.
- Citation
- LAW YUI WO v. R.
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC107/1994
The Court held that while the general position is that custody abroad pending extradition will not automatically be credited because the defendant may be the author of his own misfortune, where specific periods of detention abroad occurred through no fault of the defendant (here six weeks due to an administrative error), the sentencing court should exercise its discretion to give credit; accordingly the sentence was reduced by six weeks.