28 Apr 1994
NG KAM CHUEN v. R.
- Citation
- NG KAM CHUEN v. R.
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC88/1992
The conviction was unsafe because (1) given the Crown's reliance on the confessional statements, the trial judge should have given a specific direction that voluntariness was a matter for the jury to consider when weighing those statements; (2) expert evidence identifying the Kwong Shing Tong as a triad and describing its activities was irrelevant and highly prejudicial in the absence of a clear link to the accused; and (3) Immigration evidence admitted after the Crown closed was used in a materially different and prejudicial way to suggest a joint venture/conspiracy, and the cumulative effec…