29 Jan 1981
CAPTAIN HSIEH CHIH CHIEN v. THE QUEEN
- Citation
- CAPTAIN HSIEH CHIH CHIEN v. THE QUEEN
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC1065/1980
The magistrate erred in assessing the fine on the basis of an owners' undertaking to pay; the fundamental principle that fines must be within the offender's own capacity to pay applies, and in absence of the offender being properly to be treated as indemnified the sentence was excessive; appeal allowed to reduce the fine to HK$8,000.