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Hong Kong Case Law

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  • 27 Oct 2021

    香港特別行政區 訴 周駿業

    Citation
    [2021] HKCFI 3124
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMA157/2020

    The appeal against conviction was dismissed because the appellate court, having viewed the recorded testimony and the evidence, found no manifest or serious error in the trial judge's acceptance of the complainant and second witness: the challenged aspects of the complainant's account were not inherently impossible, the complainant's exercise of the right to silence on unrelated drug questions did not diminish her credibility, and the second witness's limited observation did not undermine the verdict. On sentence the court accepted the trial judge's process of obtaining institutional suitabil…