Hong Kong Case Law: Decisions & Judgments | LexChat

Topic

Knowingly misleading a police officer

Legal area

Court

7 May 2020

香港特別行政區訴梁耀宗

Citation

[2020] HKCFI 374
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCMA265/2019

The appeal on conviction is allowed in part because latent anomalies in the police custody/notification document (P4) created doubt sufficient to undermine the prosecution case on count 1 (knowingly misleading a police officer), leading to quashing of that conviction and vacation of its sentence. The conviction for count 2 (possession of another's identity card) is upheld because possession was established and the appellant failed to discharge his evidential burden of reasonable excuse. The original aggregate sentence for count 2 was reduced from 22 months 15 days to 18 months, to run consecu…
8 Nov 2005

HKSAR v. YIU WING WO

Citation

HKSAR v. YIU WING WO
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCMA604/2005

The magistrate was entitled to reject the appellant's inconsistent accounts, accept the police evidence and find that no third vehicle was involved and that the appellant knowingly misled a police officer; those findings were rationally based on the accepted evidence and supported the conviction under s64(b) of the Police Force Ordinance.