13 Jun 2011
HKSAR v. CHAN SIU KIT
- Citation
- HKSAR v. CHAN SIU KIT
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC83/2010
A District Court judge sitting without a jury is not obliged to expressly state in Reasons for Verdict that he has disregarded inadmissible evidence unless the evidence is so egregious and prejudicial that such an explicit statement is necessary; in this case the briefing evidence was not comparable to the gross evidence in Chow Hoi Ping, the judge avoided relying on it and based his decision on admissible facts (behaviour and confessions), therefore the omission was not fatal and the conviction was safe.