Read the full judgment text of FAMV 000027/2008 on BabelCite. This FAMV judgment was delivered on 11 September 2008 before Chief Justice Li, Bokhary PJ, Ribeiro PJ.
1. In Lau Cheong v HKSAR (2002) 5 HKCFAR 415, the Court upheld the constitutional validity of mandatory life sentences imposed on adults convicted of murder on the grounds stated in that judgment. As was correctly decided at first instance (Hartmann and Chung JJ) and in the Court of Appeal (Ma CJHC, Stock JA and Suffiad J) below, the sentence which was upheld is the sentence as traditionally imposed, that is, an indefinite sentence of imprisonment for life subject to regular statutory reviews b
Legal issues: Constitutional validity of mandatory life sentence without minimum term · Board's power to set minimum term
Outcome: Application for leave to appeal dismissed