HKSAR V. LIANG YAOQIANG (梁耀強)

[2021] HKCFA 26 Court of Final Appeal 21 July 2021 • FACC5/2021 • 41 min read

26 cases cited (0 SG, 26 foreign)

Practice Areas

Criminal Procedure Ordinance Homicide Ordinance Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance

Judges (5)

Cheung Coram Fok Coram French Coram Ribeiro Coram Tang Coram

Counsel (7)

Department of Justice Firm Tse Yuen Ting Wong Firm Andy Lo Counsel Respondent Denise Souza Counsel Appellant Ira Lui Counsel Respondent Robert Pang Counsel Appellant William Tam Counsel Respondent

Parties (2)

HKSAR Respondent Liang Yaoqiang Appellant

Summary

Liang Yaoqiang appealed against his third conviction for the murder of his cohabitee Madam Yeung Sau Yu in 2009, following two previous convictions that were quashed on appeal. The Court of Final Appeal considered whether ordering a third retrial constituted a miscarriage of justice and examined the circumstances of the killing. The appeal was allowed and the conviction was quashed.

Statutes Cited

Criminal Procedure Ordinance

s 83E(1)

Homicide Ordinance

s 4

Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance (Cap 383)

Cases Cited (26)

UK (6)

[1980] AC 343 [1980] AC 351 [2000] 1 WLR 384 [2001] UKPC 19 [2004] 2 AC 72 [2011] EWCA Crim 2156

HK (20)

(2007) 10 HKCFAR 632 (2008) 11 HKCFAR 1 (2010) 13 HKCFAR 27 (2017) 20 HKCFAR 1 (2017) 20 HKCFAR 149 (2017) 20 HKCFAR 414 (2018) 21 HKCFAR 35 (2020) 23 HKCFAR 169 [1981] HKC 542 [2000] 3 HKLRD 688 [2010] 4 HKC 580 [2010] 6 HKC 473 [2014] 4 HKC 145 [2015] 2 HKLRD 1089 [2015] 5 HKLRD 743 [2016] 1 HKLRD 946 [2020] 2 HKLRD 1051 [2020] 3 HKLRD 310 [2021] 1 HKLRD 26 [2021] HKCFA 12

Judgment

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Read on HKLII

Source: HKLII ([2021] HKCFA 26)