5 Sept 2018
HKSAR v. CHAU YUI MING
- Citation
- [2018] HKCA 569
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC441/2015
By majority the Court held that the prosecution were entitled to charge all seized drugs in a single count, the judge’s ‘all or nothing’ direction was a lawful and defensible response to the defence’s tactical position (and to the way the case was run), juries are presumed to follow directions and there was no duty to canvass every conceivable factual permutation or to split the indictment here; admission of the applicant’s prior convictions was within the judge’s discretion and cross‑examination did not unlawfully draw adverse inference from silence. Accordingly leave to appeal and the appea…