4 Jun 2019
香港特別行政區 訴 張浩傑
- Citation
- [2019] HKCA 557
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC242/2018
Although permitting the prosecution to make a brief closing speech to a now unrepresented appellant was procedurally irregular in principle, in the circumstances of this trial—where the appellant had been represented for the substantial part of the hearing, had given detailed special evidence under counsel, counsel accepted there was sufficient prima facie case and the prosecution’s remarks were brief and non‑prejudicial—the irregularity did not cause a miscarriage of justice. The new expert report did not undermine the agreed average consumption fact and failed the threshold for admission. T…