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The Court of Appeal ordered a retrial for murder, holding that the trial error did not justify substituting manslaughter and that fair-trial concerns could be managed.
The Court of Appeal quashed Lai Kan-yau’s murder conviction after fresh call records showed he did receive a return call from his father, making the prosecution’s lie allegation unsafe.
The Court of Appeal refused leave to appeal against conviction, holding that interpreter errors in a video-recorded interview were minor and did not make the murder trial unfair.
Court of Appeal refused renewed leave to appeal against a murder conviction, holding there was no evidential basis for self-defence and no misdirection on unlawful killing.
The Court of Appeal granted leave to appeal only on an alibi-direction ground, finding a reasonably arguable circularity issue, and refused leave on all other grounds.
Conviction for murder was quashed and a retrial ordered after the Court of Appeal held that excluding a clinical psychologist’s evidence on diminished responsibility was unfair.
The Court of Appeal granted leave to appeal against a murder conviction, finding an arguable issue over the judge’s CCTV directions and causation.
The Court of Final Appeal awarded the appellant costs only for the leave application and the substantive appeal, but refused costs for the trial and intermediate appeal.
The Court of Appeal refused leave to appeal against a murder conviction, holding there was no proper basis for a self-defence direction and no summing-up error.
The Court of Final Appeal refused leave to appeal in a murder case, holding the provocation directions were adequate and fresh psychiatric evidence was inadmissible.
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