Read the full judgment text of CACC 000511/1999 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 23 December 1999.
1. The Applicant was charged, together with another man, with attempted robbery. He faced a second charge of remaining in Hong Kong without authority. On 27 September 1999, Judge Muttrie dealt with the Applicant, after he had entered pleas of guilty to both charges, and imposed sentences which were partially consecutive. On the second charge, for which a consecutive sentence of fifteen months is normally imposed, the judge took into account totality and made this run, in part only, consecutively