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Hong Kong Case Law

Voluntariness of cautioned interview
  • 17 Jan 2022

    香港特別行政區 訴 王艷琪

    Citation
    [2022] HKCFI 23
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMA289/2020

    The trial judge’s credibility findings—based on CCTV, the store security witness and inconsistencies in the appellant’s accounts—were upheld. The judge properly excluded reliance on the caution admission for the core dishonesty finding, instead concluding from the totality of the evidence that the appellant deliberately concealed goods and left without payment, proving dishonesty and intent to permanently deprive beyond reasonable doubt; there was no material legal error to overturn the conviction.