Read the full judgment text of HCAL 398/2017 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. The applicant is a Pakistani national who entered Hong Kong illegally only to be arrested on the same day. The applicant filed a non-refoulement protection claim which was rejected by the Director of Immigration (“the Director”) on 23 February 2016 and 13 April 2017. The applicant lodged an appeal/petition to the Torture Claims Appeal Board (“TCAB”) which rejected his appeal when the applicant failed to attend on 25 May 2017. The applicant filed an application for leave to apply for judici