Read the full judgment text of CACV 000024/1997 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 29 May 1997.
1. The applicants are asylum-seekers from Vietnam. They sought asylum in Hong Kong. They were all refused refugee status by the Director of Immigration ("the DOI") and later by the Refugee Status Review Board ("the RSRB"). They wished to challenge those decisions and for that purpose applied for legal aid. To enable the Director of Legal Aid ("the DLA") to determine those applications, copies of various documents concerning the applicants were supplied to her by the DOI. They were supplied to he