6 Mar 2026
香港特別行政區 訴 肖娜容及另二人
- Citation
- [2026] HKCA 205
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC157/2021
The Court held the trial judge failed to give adequate and properly sequenced directions on the subjective element of 'reasonable grounds to believe', omitted the required step of treating defence assertions that may be 'possible true' as part of the assessment, gave incomplete guidance on the nature of predicate offences (erroneously suggesting extraterritorial conduct was necessarily within Hong Kong law), and gave inadequate directions on conspiracy mens rea; these deficiencies rendered the convictions unsafe. Consequently the convictions and sentences of D3, D4 and D5 were quashed and set…