20 Dec 2012
HKSAR v. TSANG WAI LUN WAYLAND AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- HKSAR v. TSANG WAI LUN WAYLAND AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC96/2010
The Court held that s83B empowers it to increase individual and cumulative sentences for remaining counts to rectify sentencing anomalies caused by quashed convictions but construed s83B as not authorizing an overall sentence on the remnant counts that is more severe than the total sentence imposed at trial; applying that construction and correcting the trial judge's understatement of the individual seriousness of charges 3 and 4, the Court substituted higher concurrent sentences of 22 months for Tsang (each count) and 20 months for Kwok (each count) after limited discounts for delay and good…