6 Feb 1991
PHUNG VAN TOAN AND OTHERS v. THE QUEEN
- Citation
- PHUNG VAN TOAN AND OTHERS v. THE QUEEN
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC13/1990
The court discharged the accused on the murder charge because the prosecution evidence was insufficient as a matter of law: the prosecution statements failed s.80B(2)(e) because statements were in Cantonese and not read to witnesses in their Vietnamese language as required; police officers' accounts of what witnesses said via interpreters at identification parades are inadmissible hearsay under R v Attard; the judge lacked jurisdiction to accept belated interpreter statements; consequently the identification evidence was legally insufficient to establish a prima facie case of murder (though i…