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Hong Kong Case Law

Requirements for statement of findings
  • 23 Aug 1996

    R. v. WONG HUI CHING

    Citation
    R. v. WONG HUI CHING
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMA722/1996

    The appeal is allowed and conviction quashed because the magistrate failed to address central inconsistencies between the police evidence and the private customer's evidence (and unresolved interpreter inconsistencies), omissions that undermined the safety of the conviction and the assessment of the confession's voluntariness and reliability.

    • Managing a vice establishment
    • Admissibility and voluntariness of confession
    • Witness credibility and contradictions
    • Interpreter reliability
    • Requirements for statement of findings