佔中案件

有關反新界東北發展撥款案的判詞，分析如下：

(1) 上訴庭認為原審法庭判得太輕，而有關罪行由於涉及暴力，應判處監禁刑期。終審法院認同了這觀點，只是不認同15個月的量刑指引有追溯力而已。換言之，律政司就原審法庭的判決提出上訴並無不妥。

(2) 雖然15個月的量刑指引並沒有追溯力，因此就有關佔中的案件似乎未能引用此量刑指引，但假如佔中案件最終判罰為3至6個月(甚至是14個月)監禁，便不能算是採用了這個量刑指引。此外，終審法院亦認同了上訴庭的觀點，即社會服務令不適用於沒有悔意的罪行。

(3) 視乎案情而定，佔中案件最終判罰若超過15個月監禁亦未嘗不可，只要有個說法，就是沒有引用15個月的量刑指引，那便可以了。

para 47.  Furthermore, although we are satisfied that the Court of Appeal would have been entitled, on the existing authorities on unlawful assembly, to conclude that it was necessary in this case to impose a term of imprisonment as a deterrent sentence, we do not think (for the reasons set out in Section D below) that the starting point of 15 months’ imprisonment can be justified on the state of previous sentences imposed for this offence (see CA Reasons at [145]).  None of the various earlier cases to which reference was made in Wong Chi Fung (CFA) at [95], and which represented a summary of the range of sentences previously imposed (prior to Wong Chi Fung (CA)) for that offence, approached (save for that arising in the context of the 1967 riots) a starting point of 15 months’ imprisonment.

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