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Hong Kong Case Law

Suicide pact

  • 11 Jul 2024

    HKSAR v. LI CHEUNG CHOI (李長再)

    Citation
    [2024] HKCFA 20
    Court
    Court of Final Appeal
    Case number
    FAMC16/2023

    Leave to appeal was granted only on the point whether statements of an accused to a medical practitioner are hearsay and the effect on admissibility of the expert's opinion; the remainder of the application was dismissed because there was no reasonable argument that the trial judge or Court of Appeal were wrong to conclude there was insufficient evidential basis to require a jury direction on suicide pact and no substantial and grave injustice arose.

  • 7 Sept 2021

    HKSAR v. LI CHEUNG CHOI

    Citation
    [2021] HKCA 1278
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC210/2018

    The Court held that (1) there was insufficient admissible evidence to leave suicide pact to the jury because the record did not support a common settled intention by the deceased to die with the applicant; and (2) under Hong Kong precedent statements made by the accused to psychiatrists constitute hearsay and, absent admissible proof of their factual foundation, may only be used as the basis for experts' opinions and their weight assessed accordingly; the judge’s directions were therefore correct and the appeal dismissed.