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Sentencing enhancement for latent risk
  • 8 Mar 2005

    HKSAR v. YEUNG KAM CHUN

    Citation
    HKSAR v. YEUNG KAM CHUN
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC427/2004

    Sentencing discretion permits enhancement for latent risk after assessment of full circumstances; where offences are closely linked the court may order partial concurrency; tariffs like Ching Kwok Hung are guides and do not preclude lower starting points for very small quantities; applying those principles the court reduced and substituted the aggregate sentence to reflect a six-month partial concurrency and concurrency for the third count.