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Hong Kong Case Law

Retrial sentencing principle
  • 15 Apr 2016

    HKSAR v. NG CHUN TO RAYMOND

    Citation
    HKSAR v. NG CHUN TO RAYMOND
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC65/2015

    Leave to appeal against conviction refused because any arguable error in admitting evidence of earlier HK events was neutralised by the judge's clear limiting direction and there was ample independent circumstantial and direct evidence linking the applicant to the conspiracies such that the co-conspirator rule and admitted hearsay did not render the convictions unsafe; leave to appeal against sentence granted because the retrial sentencing increase raised a reasonably arguable issue under the principle that a sentence after retrial should not ordinarily exceed the original sentence without cl…