23 May 2012
香港特別行政區 訴 曾耿中
- Citation
- 香港特別行政區 訴 曾耿中
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA832/2011
The judge's persistent and intrusive participation in the appellant's cross‑examination, including curtailing lines of inquiry and interrogating the appellant, created a real and objectively ascertainable danger of unfairness; therefore the conviction was unsafe and was quashed, sentence was set aside and a retrial ordered after balancing the public interest and prejudice to the appellant.