Read the full judgment text of HCCC 389/2019 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 13 May 2020.
6. By way of guidance as to the exercise of that discretion, in R v Law Yiu Wo [1994] 2 HKCLR 204, this court held that time spent in custody in a foreign jurisdiction was not generally a matter to be taken into account unless, in the discretion of the judge, it was felt that justice demanded that account should be taken of it. There is not therefore a presumption that ordinarily credit must be given.
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