30 Sept 2011
HKSAR v. FAN KING LAM
- Citation
- HKSAR v. FAN KING LAM
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC220/2010
The court dismissed the application for leave to appeal. The sentencing judge was not biased; the starting point of 7 years 9 months for 25.79 grams of the primary drug was appropriate (AG v Ching Kwok Hung) and a 9 month upward adjustment for other drugs was justified; the guilty plea merited a one third reduction yielding 5 years 8 months for the trafficking count; 12 months for possession of identity cards relating to another person is an appropriate starting point for the second count even for a Hong Kong permanent resident; consecutive terms were proper; the aggregate sentence of 6 years…