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Hong Kong Case Law

Intentional injury
  • 8 May 2024

    香港特別行政區 訴 陳真

    Citation
    [2024] HKCA 401
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC60/2022

    The Court admitted the fresh evidence of substantial compensation and concluded that, while the individual starting points for the violent offences were not manifestly excessive and therefore were maintained, the trial judge had not erred in principle in fixing those starting points but had under-weighted the mitigation effect of the appellant's substantial settlements. Applying the totality principle the Court reduced the overall sentence by 12 months. The Court ordered counts 1 and 2 to run concurrently (7 years) and counts 3 and 4 to run concurrently (7 years) with the two concurrent terms…