13 Feb 1990
THE QUEEN v. LAU WAI CHEONG
- Citation
- THE QUEEN v. LAU WAI CHEONG
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA12/1990
The High Court allowed the appeal and quashed the convictions because the magistrate, having accepted corroborative evidence that the appellant was waiting to meet his girlfriend, failed to evaluate how that factor affected the credibility of the police evidence; that omission left a lurking doubt as to the safety of the verdicts.