Hong Kong Leading Case basic and extendednon derivativedivergence from english law

HKSAR v Chan Kam Shing

(2016) 19 HKCFAR 640

JurisdictionHong Kong

CourtCourt of Final Appeal

Year2016

StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

The CFA considered joint enterprise liability and held that a secondary party must be proved to have intended the commission of the offence or contemplated it as a real possibility and participated with that awareness.

Area of Law

criminal

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