{"id":1275,"date":"2025-07-24T01:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2025-07-28T01:25:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T17:25:44","slug":"high-court-allowed-appeal-against-conviction-of-defendant-upon-prosecutions-concession-that-the-trial-was-unfair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/high-court-allowed-appeal-against-conviction-of-defendant-upon-prosecutions-concession-that-the-trial-was-unfair\/","title":{"rendered":"High Court allowed appeal against conviction of defendant upon prosecution&#8217;s concession that the trial was unfair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<section class=\"section news-detail-section\" id=\"section_1690474476\">\n\t\t<div class=\"bg section-bg fill bg-fill  bg-loaded\" >\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div id=\"text-275394445\" class=\"text breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #627A80;\nfont-family: Merriweather;\nfont-size: 13px;\nfont-style: normal;\nfont-weight: 400;\nline-height: 150%; \/* 19.5px *\/\nletter-spacing: 0.39px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/\">Home<\/a> \/ <a href=\"\/news\/\">News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_1690474476 {\n  padding-top: 0px;\n  padding-bottom: 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\t<section class=\"section news-detail-section\" id=\"section_550677664\">\n\t\t<div class=\"bg section-bg fill bg-fill  bg-loaded\" >\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1892897548\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-620307554\" class=\"col medium-12 small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div id=\"text-2778307808\" class=\"text h3\">\n\t\t\n\n<p>High Court allowed appeal against conviction of defendant upon prosecution&#8217;s concession that the trial was unfair<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"text-3559840869\" class=\"text h5\">\n\t\t\n\n<p><strong>HKSAR v HK Fully New Gas Holdings Ltd (\u6e2f\u6d88\u65b0\u57fa\u6709\u9650\u516c\u53f8) &amp; Anor<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-3559840869 {\n  font-size: 1.25rem;\n  text-align: left;\n  color: #003d4c;\n}\n#text-3559840869 > * {\n  color: #003d4c;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"text-1347704277\" class=\"text txt-bold\">\n\t\t\n\n<p>24 July 2025<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_1738847956\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/\u6e2f\u6d88-1024x576.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/\u6e2f\u6d88-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/\u6e2f\u6d88-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/\u6e2f\u6d88-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/\u6e2f\u6d88-18x10.jpeg 18w, https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/\u6e2f\u6d88.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_1738847956 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"gap-1385617175\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-1385617175 {\n  padding-top: 0px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #gap-1385617175 {\n    padding-top: 40px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<p>DHCJ Edmond Lee allowed an appeal against conviction on the basis that the trial was unfair.<br \/><br \/>The Appellant Company (A1) faced a summons offence of failing to pay upon termination of an employment contract. A1\u2019s director (i.e. A2) faced a summons offence for failing to do so as the director of the employer. One of the grounds of appeal was that the trial magistrate failed to conduct the trial fairly. For instance, the trial magistrate failed to allow the appellants to apply for the audio recordings of the trial and\/or transcripts, so that a legal representative could be instructed to represent them. The prosecution, upon considering the appellants\u2019 representations, reasonably conceded the appeal. DHCJ Edmond Lee agreed the same upon considering all the circumstances and quashed the conviction.<br \/><br \/>Simon So represented the 1st appellant in the appeal against conviction. The full judgment was published on <a href=\"https:\/\/legalref.judiciary.hk\/lrs\/common\/ju\/ju_frame.jsp?DIS=170691&amp;currpage=T\">https:\/\/legalref.judiciary.hk\/lrs\/common\/ju\/ju_frame.jsp?DIS=170691&amp;currpage=T<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t<div id=\"gap-561558496\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-561558496 {\n  padding-top: 60px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t<div class=\"ux-menu stack stack-col justify-start ux-menu--divider-solid\">\n\t\t\n\n\t<div class=\"ux-menu-link flex menu-item menu-button-link\">\n\t\t<a class=\"ux-menu-link__link flex\" href=\"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/news\/\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ux-menu-link__text\">\n\t\t\t\tBack to News\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_550677664 {\n  padding-top: 0px;\n  padding-bottom: 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHCJ Edmond Lee allowed an appeal against conviction on the basis that the trial was unfair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}