28 Apr 1989
THE QUEEN v. CHAN SEK HUNG AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- THE QUEEN v. CHAN SEK HUNG AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA1795/1988
The magistrate erred by effectively applying a civil standard—balancing competing narratives of prosecution and defence—instead of determining whether the prosecution had proved the case beyond reasonable doubt on its own; that misdirection rendered the conviction unsafe and warranted quashing.