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Topic

Torture claimant status

Legal area

Court

7 Mar 2016

HKSAR v. DHARMINDER SINGH

Citation

HKSAR v. DHARMINDER SINGH
Court

Court of Appeal
Case number

CACC196/2015

No error was shown in the sentencing judge's exercise of discretion: the judge correctly assessed culpability (group, premeditated, weapons used, injuries), set appropriate starting points (5 years for charges 1 & 2; 3 years 6 months for charge 3), applied one-third reduction for guilty pleas, correctly ordered concurrency for charges 1 and 2 and partial consecutivity for charge 3, applied the totality principle to fix an aggregate sentence of 4 years imprisonment; leave to appeal was therefore refused.
11 Dec 2013

HKSAR v. ANEES KHIYAM

Citation

HKSAR v. ANEES KHIYAM
Court

Court of Appeal
Case number

CACC326/2013

The judge correctly identified and weighed multiple aggravating factors (multiple offenders, violence, planning, victim vulnerability) which justified a five‑year starting point for this unarmed robbery and the ordering of the sentence to run consecutively to an unrelated later sentence was not open to criticism; therefore leave to appeal against sentence is refused.