13 Nov 1985
THE QUEEN v. LAU WAI TUNG
- Citation
- THE QUEEN v. LAU WAI TUNG
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA763/1985
Conviction quashed because the prosecutor failed to disclose a prima facie material and potentially determinative inconsistency in a prosecution witness's prior statement, making the conviction unsafe; the court also held as a matter of law that touching near the complainant's left side adjacent to the breast, in the circumstances described, could constitute an indecent assault, and that corroboration may be accepted without the prosecution having to disprove collusion where collusion is only a speculative possibility.