22 Jul 2021
香港特別行政區 訴 林宗斌及另一人
- Citation
- [2021] HKCA 1018
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC285/2018
The trial judge failed to give adequate and specific directions to the jury on two critically prejudicial categories of evidence—(1) alleged post‑offence admissions attributed to the first applicant and (2) prior uncharged meetings/transactions described by the prosecution witness—such that the jury could have been misled or have wrongly relied on that evidence; those failings rendered the convictions unsafe, the proviso was not applicable, and the convictions were quashed with leave to retry reserved.