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Hong Kong Case Law

Keep/kept element
  • 20 Dec 1996

    R. v. LAM SO CHUN

    Citation
    R. v. LAM SO CHUN
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMA600/1996

    The conviction was quashed because the prosecution withheld highly material evidence of nine other undercover visits which, if timely disclosed and properly considered, would have shown that the necessary element of persistent or habitual user was not established; the single incident evidence was insufficient on the totality of circumstances to prove the premises were kept as a vice establishment, and the non‑disclosure rendered the conviction unsafe.