Read the full judgment text of HCAL 442/2017 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. The applicant is a Bangladeshi male who claimed to have entered Hong Kong illegally by boat on 9 March 2016 only to be arrested on the same day by the police. He lodged a non‑refoulement claim on 13 March 2016 which was rejected by the Director of Immigration (“the Director”) on 8 November 2016. He lodged an appeal/petition to the Torture Claims Appeal Board (“TCAB”) which heard his appeal on 19 May and rejected it on 19 July 2017. The applicant then filed a notice of application for leave