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Hong Kong Case Law

Jury verdict safety

  • 26 Oct 1983

    THE QUEEN v. TSE YUI-TO

    Citation
    THE QUEEN v. TSE YUI-TO
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC699/1983

    The trial judge was entitled to accept the police account on the voir dire and admit the cautioned statement; the statement, if accepted, placed the accused at the scene and could corroborate the complainant's evidence of a forced sexual assault even though it described indecent assault; the jury were properly directed and there was no lurking doubt warranting interference, so leave to appeal was refused.

  • 18 Jun 1973

    CHEUNG CHIU-MING v. THE QUEEN

    Citation
    CHEUNG CHIU-MING v. THE QUEEN
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC260/1973

    Conviction for wounding with intent was quashed because, in context of the jury's explicit findings of self-defence on the other counts and the Crown's concession on the sequence of stabbings, there was no reliable evidence to support a contrary finding of malice as to the manager; the verdict was therefore unsafe and could not stand.