Read the full judgment text of CACC 000026/2005 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 6 April 2006.
1. This is another in the limited series of cases in which persons were aged under 18 years at the date of their conviction for the offence of murder and were, before legislative amendments in 1993, ordered to be detained ‘until Her Majesty’s Pleasure be known’ but in respect of whom section 67C of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, Cap 221 now requires a judicial determination either of the minimum term the prisoner must serve or of a fixed term of imprisonment: see, for the history of the legis
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