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Sentencing in Hong Kong, 8th Edition

Sentencing in Hong Kong, 8th Edition

Author: Grenville Cross SBS, SC, Patrick WS Cheung
Publisher: LexisNexis Hong Kong
ISBN: 9789888476671
Published In: June 2018
Format: Paperback , 840 pages
Jurisdiction: Hong Kong ? Disclaimer:
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The eighth edition of Sentencing in Hong Kong is a vital work of reference for anyone involved in the criminal law, as well as for students and observers. It examines all aspects of sentencing law and practice, and considers the effect of latest developments. Recent appellate judgments have significantly changed sentencing practice, and the effects are expertly analysed. By referencing case law from other jurisdictions, local sentencing norms are placed in a comparative context, which enriches the whole. The impact of human rights guarantees on sentencing for specific offences is considered, against the backdrop of international jurisprudence. The appropriateness of particular sentences is assessed, together with the factors which influence the available choices. New legislation is explained, and the changes to sentencing guidelines and tariff judgments are discussed. Aggravating and mitigating factors are summarised, with the overall text having undergone modernisation. The Appendix contains the cases on quantum of sentence and the sentencing ranges for particular offences, and new topics are included.

 1 Aggravating Factors
 2 Antecedent Statements and Background Reports
 3 Appeal against Sentence
 4 Assistance to Authorities
 5 Binding Over Orders
 6 Classical Principles of Sentencing
 7 Clear Record
 8 Community Service Order
 9 Compensation Order
 10 Concurrent and Consecutive Sentencing
 11 Confiscation Orders 
 12 Costs in Criminal Cases
 13 Criminal Bankruptcy Order
 14 Criminal Record
 15 Defender and Sentence
 16 Detention Centre
 17 Discharge Orders
 18 Disparity of Sentence
 19 Disqualification from Driving
 20 Drug Addiction Treatment Centre
 21 Factual Basis for Sentence
 22 Fine
 23 Forfeiture
 24 Generalised Sentencing
 25 Guidelines
 26 Guilty and Not Guilty Pleas
 27 Hospital Order
 28 Length of Sentence
 29 Life Imprisonment
 30 Mitigating Factors
 31 Plea Bargaining
 32 Postponement of Sentence
 33 Prevalence of Offence
 34 Probation Order
 35 Prosecutor and Sentence
 36 Reasons for Sentence
 37 Reformatory School
 38 Remission of Sentence
 39 Restitution Orders
 40 Retrial Sentencing
 41 Review of Sentence
 42 Sentencing Jurisdiction
 43 Solitary Confinement
 44 Spent Conviction
 45 Suspension of Sentence
 46 Taking Offences Into Consideration
 47 Totality Principle
 48 Training Centre
 49 Victim of Crime
 50 Young Offender

I Grenville Cross SBS, SC

Grenville Cross SBS, SC is the Vice Chairman (Senate) of the International Association of Prosecutors, and chairs the Association’s Standing Committee on Prosecutors in Difficulty. A career prosecutor, he served as Director of Public Prosecutions from 1997 to 2009. Mr Cross was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1974, and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1990, becoming Senior Counsel in 1997. He is Honorary Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong, Visiting Professor of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Adjunct Professor of Law, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, and Visiting Professor of Law, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan. Mr Cross is the Sentencing Editor of Hong Kong Cases and of Archbold Hong Kong. In 2010, he was awarded the Certificate of Merit of the International Association of Prosecutors, for services to international prosecutions.

Patrick WS Cheung

Patrick WS Cheung is a barrister-at-law, with a wide experience of public prosecutions in the Department of Justice. He served as Head of the Vulnerable Witness Team, Chairman of the Standing Committee on Disclosure, and Prosecution Policy Co-ordinator on Policy and Research (Crime). Mr Cheung sat on the Criminal Procedure Rules Committee, and the Working Group on Combating Violence. He is the author of Sentencing Policy, and has contributed to Halsbury’s Laws of Hong Kong and The Annotated Ordinances of Hong Kong. Mr Cheung has served as Associate Editor of Hong Kong Cases, Contributing Editor of Archbold Hong Kong and Consultant Editor of Hong Kong Law Reports and Digest. In 2010, he was awarded the Long and Meritorious Service Certificate, for services to government.