15 Jul 2011
VIVIEN FAN AND OTHERS v. HKSAR
- Citation
- VIVIEN FAN AND OTHERS v. HKSAR
- Court
- Court of Final Appeal
- Case number
- FACC11/2010
The conviction(s) based on conspiracy must be quashed because the trial judge misused the co-conspirators rule by relying on unspecified documents admitted under that rule without identifying them to the defence, thereby rendering the trial unfair; the proviso could not be applied because the conviction(s) were not shown to be inevitable on the properly admissible evidence; additionally, the conviction for false statement by a director had to be quashed because the Court of Appeal failed properly to review the trial judge's findings in light of the quashing of related conspiracy convictions;…