8 May 1998
HKSAR v. WAI MEI LING
- Citation
- HKSAR v. WAI MEI LING
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA962/1997
The magistrate's pervasive, leading questioning amounted to entering the arena and created the appearance of bias such that the trial was unfair; the conviction was unsafe and must be quashed; no retrial ordered given the minor nature of the offence and the appellant's age.