18 Aug 2006
HKSAR v. YANG XIANU
- Citation
- HKSAR v. YANG XIANU
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA28/2006
The appeal was allowed because the magistrate must have relied on judicial notice of a particular deception modus operandi not placed before the court, that modus operandi was not shown to be of the kind the ordinary person would be presumed to know, and the magistrate failed to notify the defence that she might take judicial notice, depriving the defence of the opportunity to respond and rendering the conviction unsafe.