10 Jul 1986
THE QUEEN v. TAM CHI PANG AND OTHERS
- Citation
- THE QUEEN v. TAM CHI PANG AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC119/1985
The convictions of D.1 were quashed because the trial judge's lengthy and hostile interventions at the end of D.1's evidence improperly invited the jury to disbelieve the defence, rendering the verdicts unsafe; a retrial was ordered but limited by s83E(2) CPO to the offence of manslaughter (the offence of conviction) and not murder; the tired-jury complaints of D.2 and D.5 failed on the facts and their appeals were dismissed; D.3's discharge of counsel did not justify interruption of the trial and his appeal was dismissed; the judge erred in excluding evidence of prior identification of D.5 r…