12 Jan 2021
HKSAR v. HUANG RUIFANG
- Citation
- [2021] HKCA 11
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC330/2018
Leave to appeal was refused in respect of the majority of grounds because they were not reasonably arguable: the WeChat messages (including the slippers video) had been admitted and relied on as part of the defence following a considered tactical decision and with the applicant's written instruction, and there was no objective evidence of flagrant incompetence by trial counsel. However, a narrowly framed ground that the trial judge may have failed properly to direct the jury on the evidential use of the slippers video is reasonably arguable and leave is granted on that limited issue subject t…