District Court Judge acquits defendants of money laundering involving HK$ 54 million after a 26-day trial
Deputy Judge Don So acquits defendants of Money Laundering involving HK$54 million....
DetailsSingle Judge of the Court of Appeal granted bail pending appeal to an Applicant convicted in the District Court of Money Laundering
K Yeung J granted the defendant bail pending appeal after he was convicted by HH...
DetailsCourt found a defendant not guilty of possession of firearms and ammunition
Deputy District Judge Winnie Lau found a 30-year-old defendant not guilty of possession of firearms...
DetailsProsecution offered no further evidence after defence objected to the admissibility of evidence in a charge of “Letting Premises to be Used as a Vice Establishment”
After taking time to consider the defendant’s submissions, the prosecution decided to offer no further...
DetailsMagistrate acquitted a 15-year-old boy of allegedly raping a girl few months older than him
Magistrate Byron Tsang acquitted the defendant, a 15-year-old boy at the time of the incident,...
DetailsCourt of Appeal clarified burden and standard of proof of a defendant charged with “assisting unauthorized entrants to remain in Hong Kong” who intends to rely on statutory defence
Court of Appeal held that an earlier CA decision of Yeung Kam Yuen was wrong...
DetailsCourt of Appeal quashed murder conviction of the appellant on the basis of admitted fresh evidence
Court of Appeal (constituted of Macrae CJHC (Ag), Zervos and Anthea Pang JJA) quashed murder...
DetailsCourt passed suspended sentence to a defendant pleading guilty to money laundering charge of HK$ 1.4 million due to delay in prosecution and special circumstances
Ag Principal Magistrate Karen Leung sentenced a 30-year-old defendant to 12 months’ imprisonment suspended for...
DetailsHigh Court allowed appeal against conviction of defendant upon prosecution’s concession that the trial was unfair
DHCJ Edmond Lee allowed an appeal against conviction on the basis that the trial was...
DetailsCourt quashed conviction of possession of offensive weapon on the basis of lurking doubt
DHCJ Edmond Lee quashed a conviction of possession of offensive weapon (namely two plastic “sticks”)...
DetailsCourt acquitted defendant of fighting in public place with costs after prosecution failed to prove the alleged fight took place in a “public place” and defendant was not acting in self-defence
Magistrate Frances Leung acquitted D1 of fighting in a public place after the prosecution failed...
DetailsProsecution dropped drug charges upon considering defence representation, proceeding only with a money laundering charge and failure to surrender to custody
Prosecution offered no evidence to (i) conspiracy to traffic dangerous drugs; and (ii) trafficking in...
DetailsMagistrate acquitted a Defendant of living on earnings of prostitution of others after finding prosecution witnesses “completely unbelievable” and awarded costs
Magistrate acquitted a Defendant charged with “living on earnings of prostitution of others” after finding...
DetailsCourt of First Instance ordered Defendants to provide further and better particulars despite objection and awarded partial costs
Senior Deputy Registrar K.W. Wong ordered Defendants to provide further and better particulars despite objection...
DetailsCourt of First Instance allowed appeal against order refusing trial costs
DHCJ Edmond Lee allowed an appeal against an order refusing trial costs by the Appellant...
DetailsProsecution withdrew two charges of money laundering against a defendant who allegedly laundered HK$ 5.95 million on the first day of a 4-day trial
Prosecution withdrew two charges of money laundering against a defendant who allegedly laundered HK$ 5.95...
DetailsMagistrate refused a forfeiture application by Customs and Excise of goods worth HK$ 1.76 million
Deputy Magistrate Nicole Chun refused a forfeiture application by Customs and Excise (C&E) of cigars...
DetailsCourt granted costs upon prosecution offering no further evidence after a jury was declared hung
Hon Barnes J granted costs to the Accused upon the Prosecution elected to offer no...
DetailsCourts found defendant not guilty of careless driving at trial and not guilty of failing to stop and failing to report after accident on appeal.
The Court found a defendant not guilty of careless driving at trial and not guilty...
DetailsMagistrate found a defendant not guilty of indecent assault against his daughter and ordered the prosecution to pay costs
Deputy Magistrate Christine Leung acquitted a defendant (“D”) charged with indecent assault and ordered the...
DetailsCourt found 70 years old defendant not guilty of two counts of shop theft
Magistrate Vivian Ho acquitted a 70-year-old former police senior colonel of 2 counts of shop...
DetailsMagistrate sentenced a mainland student pleading guilty to making a false statement to the immigration department for immediate release
Magistrate Tsang Chung-yiu sentenced a mainland student using false academic qualifications to enter into Hong...
DetailsCourt found 17-year-old defendant not guilty of indecent assault and criminal damage and awarded costs to him
Deputy Magistrate Eric Yao acquitted a defendant ("D") charged with indecent assault and criminal damage...
DetailsHigh Court granted costs on an indemnity basis after a Defendant withdrawing a statutory demand on a disputed debt
Recorder Jenkin Suen SC granted costs on an indemnity basis to the Plaintiff after the...
DetailsCourt of First Instance quashed conviction as magistrate entered into the arena
DHCJ E Lee allowed an Appellant’s appeal against conviction of indecent assault on the ground...
DetailsCourt of First Instance allowed appeal against sentence for a defendant who pleaded guilty to operating a gambling establishment
The Court of First Instance reduced the quantum of fine from HK$ 100,000 to HK$...
DetailsCourt acquitted defendant with costs of claiming to be a member of a triad society
Deputy Magistrate Li Cheuk-wai acquitted defendant charged with claiming to be a member of a...
DetailsCourt of First Instance granted defendant convicted of indecent assault bail pending appeal
Hon Anna Lai J granted an applicant convicted of indecent assault bail pending appeal (against...
DetailsMagistrate acquitted defendant of wounding due to unreliable voice identification and awarded him costs
Magistrate Patrick Tsang acquitted a defendant charged with wounding his wife and awarded him costs....
DetailsMagistrate acquitted defendant of using a false instrument
Magistrate Kelly Shui found the defendant not guilty of using a false instrument...
DetailsMagistrate granted costs of jurisdiction challenge and trial proper after acquittal
Magistrate Daniel Tang awarded the Defendant costs for, inter alia, arguing the Magistracy has no...
DetailsHigh Court set aside enforcement order of arbitration award
Mimmie Chan J took the opportunity to review whether an “Optional/Inchoate Arbitration Clause” is valid....
DetailsDistrict Court applied new test of illegality pronounced by Court of Appeal
Court applied landmark decision in Monat Investment Ltd (which affirmed UK Supreme Court's approach in...
DetailsCoroner’s Court hears inquest of a deaf-and-dumb psychiatric patient jumped-from-height shortly after his discharge
Jury found deceased killed himself whilst the balance of his mind was disturbed....
DetailsCourt of Appeal granted an applicant convicted of ‘assisting the remaining of an unauthorized entrant’ bail pending appeal
Hon Anthea Pang JA granted an applicant convicted of “assisting the remaining of an unauthorized...
DetailsMagistrate ruled out alleged oral confession and Record of Interview obtained by police from a Hard-of-Hearing youth and acquitted him of assaulting a police officer
Magistrate Daniel Tang found the defendant had a bare case to answer in the special...
DetailsMagistrate found secondary school teacher no case to answer for indecent assault and bare case to answer for common assault
Deputy Magistrate Yvonne Chan found a male secondary school teacher no case to answer for...
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