6 Feb 2018
SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE v. CHOW YONG KANG ALEX
- Citation
- [2018] HKCFA 4
- Court
- Court of Final Appeal
- Case number
- FACC10/2017
The Court of Final Appeal allowed the appeals, held that the Court of Appeal was entitled to give guidance that unlawful assemblies involving disorder or violence should attract greater weight to punishment and deterrence in future sentencing but erred in applying that new approach retrospectively to these appellants and in interfering with the magistrate's discretionary weighting of factors where the sentences were not manifestly inadequate; quashed the custodial sentences imposed on review and reinstated the magistrate's original sentences; additionally found the Court of Appeal erred in it…