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Hong Kong Case Law

Time of death

  • 1 Dec 2006

    HKSAR v. LEUNG WING SING

    Citation
    HKSAR v. LEUNG WING SING
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC94/2006

    The court dismissed the application for leave to appeal because the pathologist's and toxicologist's evidence coherently established a time of death (about 1–4 am) inconsistent with the applicant's account of events at 7:15–9:30 am, the children's evidence was properly treated and open to belief, the judge's summing up was fair (typographical errors were harmless), no material nondisclosure was demonstrated and the other alleged trial defects lacked merit; on that basis there was no arguable ground to overturn the conviction.

  • 7 Aug 1976

    AU-YEUNG PING KEUNG v. THE QUEEN

    Citation
    AU-YEUNG PING KEUNG v. THE QUEEN
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC528/1976

    On the whole of the evidence the conviction is safe: the trial judge correctly admitted similar fact evidence as highly probative, correctly left identification and circumstantial matters to the jury with proper directions, his references to the accused's demeanour and the torn pocket were not prejudicial, and medical and forensic evidence of sustained strangulation justified withdrawing manslaughter as an available verdict; accordingly the appeal is dismissed.