Court of Final Appeal criticises Andrew Hing Wai Chan for applying civil appeal standard in criminal case, causing manifest and serious injustice
終院批評陳慶偉法官錯用民事上訴標準審刑事 導致明顯嚴重不公
In a shop theft case involving HK$648.7, a five-judge panel of the Court of Final Appeal unanimously allowed the appeal. It named Court of First Instance judge Andrew Hing Wai Chan, saying the judge had departed from the established standard for a rehearing by wrongly applying the civil appeal standard at the appeal hearing, without considering whether the charge had been proved beyond reasonable doubt, and had failed to properly discharge the duty of rehearing, resulting in manifest and serious injustice.
一宗涉及648.7元的店舖盜竊罪，在上訴至終審法院後，5名法官一致裁定上訴得直，並點名原訟庭法官陳慶偉偏離「重審」的一貫標準，在上訴聆訊錯誤採用民事上訴標準，沒有考慮控罪是否在毫無合理疑點下獲證明，未有妥當進行重審職責，導致案件出現明顯和嚴重不公。