31 Aug 2016
HKSAR v. MURAMOVA ANNA
- Citation
- HKSAR v. MURAMOVA ANNA
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC420/2014
Although the passport entries were admissible for attacking credibility and showing the applicant was a seasoned traveller, the judge failed to direct the jury clearly and emphatically that such lifestyle/travel evidence could only be used for limited purposes and could not be used to infer prior drug trafficking or to prove knowledge on the occasion; that failure risked forbidden reasoning and was material, requiring allowance of the appeal, quashing of the conviction and ordering a retrial.