Hong Kong Leading Case reverse onuspurposivepresumption of innocence

HKSAR v Cheung Kwun Yin

(2009) 12 HKCFAR 568; [2009] HKCFA 67

JurisdictionHong Kong

CourtCourt of Final Appeal

Year2009

StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

Restates the modern purposive approach to construing criminal statutes and the analysis of whether a statutory presumption imposing a reverse onus is a justified and proportionate derogation from the presumption of innocence.

Area of Law

Criminal Law, Procedure & Evidence

Related Cases

HKSAR v Lo Kin Man (2021) 24 HKCFAR 302; [2021] HKCFA 37

Secretary for Justice v Wong Chi Fung & Others (2018) 21 HKCFAR 35; [2018] HKCFA 4

HKSAR v Ngo Van Nam (and HKSAR v Abdou Maikido Abdoulkarim) [2016] 5 HKLRD 1; CACC 418/2014 (and CACC 327/2015)

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