{"id":1219,"date":"2025-03-27T00:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2025-07-08T00:23:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T16:23:33","slug":"court-granted-costs-upon-prosecution-offering-no-further-evidence-after-a-jury-was-declared-hung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/zh\/court-granted-costs-upon-prosecution-offering-no-further-evidence-after-a-jury-was-declared-hung\/","title":{"rendered":"\u966a\u5be9\u5718\u7121\u6cd5\u9054\u6210\u88c1\u6c7a\u5f8c\u63a7\u65b9\u4e0d\u63d0\u8b49\u4f9b\u8d77\u8a34\uff0c\u6cd5\u5ead\u4ee4\u63a7\u65b9\u652f\u4ed8\u88ab\u544a\u8a1f\u8cbb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<section class=\"section news-detail-section\" id=\"section_516306103\">\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-2989561367\" 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_516306103 {\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_841228905\">\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-937257131\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1699846357\" 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-1195198416\" class=\"text h3\">\n\t\t\n\n<p>Court granted costs upon prosecution offering no further evidence after a jury was declared hung<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"text-898270323\" class=\"text h5\">\n\t\t\n\n<p><strong>HKSAR v Chan Chi Keung (\u9673\u99b3\u5f37)<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-898270323 {\n  font-size: 1.25rem;\n  text-align: left;\n  color: #003d4c;\n}\n#text-898270323 > * {\n  color: #003d4c;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"text-250708271\" class=\"text txt-bold\">\n\t\t\n\n<p>27 March 2025\u00a0<\/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_1848619622\">\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\/Chan-Che-Keung-1024x576.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Chan-Che-Keung-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Chan-Che-Keung-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Chan-Che-Keung-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Chan-Che-Keung-18x10.jpeg 18w, https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Chan-Che-Keung.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_1848619622 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"gap-2007864939\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-2007864939 {\n  padding-top: 0px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #gap-2007864939 {\n    padding-top: 40px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<p>Hon Barnes J granted costs to the Accused upon the Prosecution elected to offer no further evidence after a jury was declared hung.<br \/><br \/>The Accused, charged with rape, was alleged to have nonconsensual sexual intercourse with the Complainant (\u201cX\u201d) whilst she was unconscious. The Accused, during VRI, admitted to having sexual intercourse with X but explained that X had woken up when they arrived at the Accused\u2019s home and had consented to sexual intercourse.<br \/><br \/>Due to the exceptional circumstances of the case, the Accused made a no-case-to-answer submission after the close of the prosecution\u2019s case in the absence of the jury: [5]-[13]. Amongst other things, evidence of X was found to be inconsistent with objective evidence (e.g. X said she was completely unconscious in the morning, but X\u2019s mobile phone revealed that she had used WhatsApp, made and had numerous successful phone calls with others, and had communicated with his male friend on Facetime for 32 minutes). X\u2019s immediate reaction after the alleged rape was also inconsistent with being raped (e.g. she invited a male friend to \u201cgo and sleep with her\u201d). X\u2019s evidence was also inconsistent with her boyfriend. The Judge decided to leave the matter for the jury. After a 9-day trial, the jury reported that they could not reach a verdict after 8 hours. The Judge therefore discharged the jury.<br \/><br \/>The Court accepted the defence submission that the Accused\u2019s act was not bringing suspicion to himself such that the prosecution was misled: [17]-[21]; [28]-[33]. The Judge agreed that X\u2019s evidence could not reconcile with objective and\/or indisputable evidence: [31]. The Court observed that the objective evidence was in fact within the prosecution\u2019s case and in the Committal Bundle: [11] and [26]. The Accused could not be said to have brought suspicion upon himself whereby the prosecution would have thought the evidence against him was stronger. As such, costs were granted in favour of the Accused.<br \/><br \/>Simon So with Jack Hui represented the Accused in the 9-day jury trial and the costs application. 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