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Hong Kong Case Law

Judicial conduct on questioning
  • 17 Nov 2014

    HKSAR v. KWOK PO LUN

    Citation
    HKSAR v. KWOK PO LUN
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC164/2013

    The appellate court found no error in the trial judge's fact‑finding or legal reasoning: the forensic evidence and contextual material sufficiently linked the seized computer and its illicit content to the applicant; the possibilities of third‑party tampering or planting while in police custody were inherently improbable despite procedural handling flaws; the judge's questioning of experts was a permissible exercise of his fact‑finding function; and the sentences imposed were within proper guidelines — accordingly leave to appeal against conviction and sentence was refused.