19 Apr 2001
HKSAR v. CHUNG FOON MING
- Citation
- HKSAR v. CHUNG FOON MING
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA163/2001
The magistrate was correct to take latent risk into account but the 100% enhancement was excessive; proper enhancement was three months raising the 15-month starting point to 18 months, reduced by one-third for the guilty plea to 12 months; 75% of that (9 months) to run consecutively to the existing 22-month sentence producing a total effective sentence of 31 months. The magistrate erred in using a starting point beyond his jurisdictional limit for calculating plea discount, but that point was academic given the reduction ordered.