HKSAR v. Lee Yuk Chun
Read the full judgment text of CACC 487/2004 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 3 February 2005.
1. The applicant is aged 49 years with no previous convictions. The role that she played in this affair was, she said, as an employee, earning $250 a day for two months prior to her arrest. Manufacturing equipment was found in the premises, for which the reason the sentence was no doubt higher than otherwise it would have been. Nonetheless a question arises for consideration, namely, whether the three-year starting point was or was not too high. That is a matter which is worthy of considerat
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CACC 487/2004 IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION COURT OF APPEAL CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 487 OF 2004 (ON APPEAL FROM DCCC NO. 783 OF 2004) ---------------------- BETWEEN
-------------------- Before : Hon Stock JA in Court Dates of Hearing : 3 February 2005 Date of Judgment : 3 February 2005 ------------------------ J U D G M E N T ------------------------ Hon Stock JA (giving the judgment of the Court): 1.The applicant is aged 49 years with no previous convictions. The role that she played in this affair was, she said, as an employee, earning $250 a day for two months prior to her arrest. Manufacturing equipment was found in the premises, for which the reason the sentence was no doubt higher than otherwise it would have been. Nonetheless a question arises for consideration, namely, whether the three-year starting point was or was not too high. That is a matter which is worthy of consideration by the full Court and I therefore grant the applicant leave to appeal against sentence.
Applicant, LEE Yuk-chun, in person Mr Eddie Sean, SGC of the Department of Justice for the Respondent |
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