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Hong Kong Case Law

Living on the earnings of a prostitute

  • 5 Sept 1996

    R. v. LAM WAI

    Citation
    R. v. LAM WAI
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC284/1996

    The trial judge properly assessed and accepted the prosecution evidence and the applicant's voluntary cautioned statement which together established involvement in the offences charged; nothing before the Court of Appeal undermined those findings, so leave to appeal was refused and convictions and concurrent sentences were upheld.

    • Keeping a vice establishment
    • Living on the earnings of a prostitute
    • Assisting unauthorised entrants
    • Credibility of witnesses
    • Admissibility of cautioned statement
    • Appeal against conviction

  • 6 Oct 1988

    THE QUEEN v. LEUNG YUN

    Citation
    THE QUEEN v. LEUNG YUN
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMA729/1988

    Appeal allowed because the magistrate failed to give the necessary accomplice corroboration warning where the evidence established the prostitutes had volunteered in a manner that could render them accomplices; absent corroboration the convictions were unsafe and could not stand.

    • Living on the earnings of a prostitute
    • Corroboration
    • Dock identification
    • Accomplice liability
    • Tender age witness