9 Mar 2010
CAI ZONG GANG v. HKSAR
- Citation
- CAI ZONG GANG v. HKSAR
- Court
- Court of Final Appeal
- Case number
- FACC4/2008
Because the jury had earlier purported to return inoperative 4:3 acquittals and the trial judge failed to stop the verdict-taking and failed to give the standard direction that they would be further directed if unable to reach an operative majority, there was a real danger the jury were put under undue pressure to agree; this caused substantial injustice warranting quashing the convictions and discharging the appellant rather than ordering a retrial given the period spent in custody.