15 Mar 2006
HKSAR v. HUNG SHI CHUNG AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- HKSAR v. HUNG SHI CHUNG AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC158/2005
The trial judge materially misdirected herself by treating D8's plea facts in exhibit P1 as corroborative evidence against D1 and D7 when P1 had not been admitted for their trial; that misdirection rendered the convictions on Charge 8 unsafe and they were quashed. The misuse of P1 was confined to Charge 8 and did not undermine the judge's independent credibility findings on the remaining charges; those convictions were upheld. Sentencing was adjusted: D1's sentence for incitement to traffic in dangerous drugs was increased from 4 months to 3 years with two years to run consecutively, producin…