7 Mar 2006
HKSAR v. CHOW WING MAN
- Citation
- HKSAR v. CHOW WING MAN
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC286/2005
Although the trial judge erred in excluding highly probative out-of-court statements assertedly amounting to a confession, she did not err in refusing to discharge the jury; the defence had prior notice, no contemporaneous objection was made, and the judge's summing up (including directions that speeches are not evidence) sufficiently protected the fairness of the trial so the conviction was not unsafe or unsatisfactory.