7 Nov 1986
THE QUEEN v. YEUNG KUEN CHI
- Citation
- THE QUEEN v. YEUNG KUEN CHI
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC82/1986
An order by the Court of Appeal for a retrial, even when expressed generally, implicitly and bindingly directs that a fresh indictment be preferred charging the same counts as those determined in the appellant's favour; an Attorney General's addition of counts not within that implicit direction does not automatically vitiate the trial where the Crown proceeds only on the counts determined by the Court of Appeal. Caning imposed by reference to acts of rape but attached to a robbery conviction was unlawful because the Corporal Punishment Ordinance does not permit caning for rape; the caning was…