Read the full judgment text of HCAL 120/2017 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 18 December 2017.
1. This is an application for leave to apply for judicial review. The applicant is a Bangladeshi national who said he was refused entry into Hong Kong by Mainland Chinese Immigration officers one day in March 2012 so he then claimed he entered Hong Kong illegally 10 months later on 7 January 2013. He remained undetected for eight months until he was arrested. On 13 September 2013, three days after his arrest he lodged a non-refoulement claim which was rejected by the Director of Immigration (“th