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Topic

Forensic fibre evidence

Legal area

Court

7 Mar 1989

THE QUEEN v. CHEUNG YAU TOR AND ANOTHER

Citation

THE QUEEN v. CHEUNG YAU TOR AND ANOTHER
Court

Court of Appeal
Case number

CACC185/1988

The Court held the trial judge's directions and application of law were adequate, the forensic fibre and blood-group evidence legitimately linked the applicants to the male deceased and provided a coherent narrative that could only reasonably be explained by their participation in the murders; no-case submission was correctly rejected and the convictions were not unsafe.
26 Apr 1973

CHAN HON-TONG v. THE QUEEN

Citation

CHAN HON-TONG v. THE QUEEN
Court

Court of Appeal
Case number

CACC141/1973

The conviction was safe: the forensic fibre evidence, supported by probability statistics and the circumstantial chain, sufficiently linked the appellant to the victim at the time of death; statements to the psychiatrist obtained under drugs were inadmissible; the trial judge's omission to define murder elements was a technical error but non-prejudicial in the circumstances, so the appeal was dismissed.