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Hong Kong Case Law

Residential burglary
  • 23 Jan 1998

    HKSAR v. CHAN KAM WING

    Citation
    HKSAR v. CHAN KAM WING
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC408/1997

    The appeal was dismissed because the trial judge lawfully and appropriately set a three‑year starting point per domestic burglary, applied the totality principle to adopt an overall starting point of six years, took proper account of the applicant's prior record and guilty pleas, and the inadequate eleven-line summary did not render the sentence disproportionate; the sentence of concurrent four-year terms was therefore appropriate and in accordance with authority.