4 Apr 2019
The Court dismissed the Secretary for Justice's review application: the magistrate had not made an error of principle nor imposed a manifestly inadequate sentence; there is no single mandatory tariff for s3(1)(a) offences and sentencing must be fact‑sensitive; the court set out sentencing principles and common aggravating factors for guidance but declined to impose the applicant's higher starting point.
20 May 1988
The trial sentences were manifestly inadequate; given the quantities and circumstances appropriate after trial would have been approximately 15 years for each trafficking count and 16 years for the large possession count, but application of the totality principle and section 68 required reduction. The Court therefore quashed the trial sentences and substituted concurrent sentences producing an overall effective sentence of 11 years for Li Kwan Yin and 15 years for Chan Chi Yin, with the possession sentence for Chan ordered to run concurrently pursuant to section 68 to achieve the proper total…