11 Feb 2025
Leave to appeal was granted only on Ground 2 because the alibi directions risked creating a reasonably arguable circularity between Lam's identification and the falsity of the alibi; all other grounds (alleged imbalance in summing-up, hearsay of triad-status evidence, and general safety) were found not reasonably arguable and refused.
21 Jul 2017
The statement of claim disclosed no private law cause of action against the SFC because it sought to compel exercise of a statutory power and to enforce general public functions under s5(1) rather than assert any private legal right; such relief is exclusively public law in nature and must be pursued by judicial review/mandamus under Order 53 and s21K, and the claim is also barred by statutory immunity and is frivolous, vexatious and an abuse of process; accordingly the statement of claim must be struck out and the action dismissed.
5 Feb 2004
Assistance that relates to offences other than the one to which the defendant pleaded guilty, where the defendant was a willing participant and sought to defeat detection, does not justify further discount beyond immunity granted; the sentence imposed (six years six months) was proper given the applicant's record and circumstances.
9 Jun 1980
The trial judge did not err in admitting the accomplice's earlier cautioned statement because the cross-examination, in the factual context of immunity and inconsistent prior accounts, sufficiently impugned credibility as recent fabrication and the prior statement was substantially similar and rationally tended to answer the attack; the inadvertent jury awareness of an excluded statement of the 3rd appellant was an error rendered harmless by timely and effective judicial direction; and the summing-up, read as a whole, adequately instructed the jury on corroboration, misdirections were not pre…