Read the full judgment text of CACC 000467/1984 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 31 January 1985.
1. Day by day all over the Commonwealth judges are directing themselves or juries on the burden and standard of proof required to allow the conviction of persons accused of crime. Yet in Hong Kong there is uncertainty as to the general terms in which a direction on the standard of proof should be expressed. By reason of the forthright submissions made in the present appeal it is incumbent upon this Court to resolve that uncertainty if it can. We are bound to grasp the nettle.
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