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Hong Kong Case Law

Reparation/mitigation
  • 5 Feb 1979

    ATTORNEY GENERAL v. CHAN SUK LIN KATHY

    Citation
    ATTORNEY GENERAL v. CHAN SUK LIN KATHY
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CAAR2/1979

    The daughter's suspended sentence was set aside and replaced by immediate 12 months' imprisonment because her prolonged, large-scale, deceptive defalcations for self-enrichment (despite partial reparation and low salary) made immediate custody appropriate; the mother's suspended sentence was upheld because her offences were materially smaller, occurred later, and she had mitigating personal circumstances amounting to substantially lesser culpability.