7 Jan 2014
HKSAR v. CHEN QIANXIA
- Citation
- HKSAR v. CHEN QIANXIA
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC57/2013
Conviction quashed because the trial judge wrongly applied the s47 presumptions as if they imposed a persuasive burden on the defendant and also improperly invited adverse inference from the defendant's exercise of the right to silence; those errors rendered the conviction unsafe and required quashing and ordering a retrial.