Read the full judgment text of on BabelCite. was delivered on 26 October 2006.
1. The point of law which the applicant wishes to pursue in the Court of Final Appeal is that useful information provided by a defendant to a law enforcement agency is to be taken into account in mitigation of sentence even if such information was provided before his arrest (and not only, as the Court of Appeal held, if it was provided after his arrest). We certify the point is one of great and general importance involved in the decision of the Court of Appeal from which the applicant seeks lea