Read the full judgment text of CACC 000139/1996 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 2 July 1996.
1. This case reveals an unfortunate state of affairs. On January 30 this year, this applicant, an illegal immigrant in his early 20s, pleaded guilty before HH Judge Jackson in the District Court to one charge of remaining in Hong Kong without authority having landed unlawfully and to two charges of robbery, and was sentenced to a total of five years' imprisonment.