Read the full judgment text of HCAL 813/2017 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 13 April 2018.
1. The applicant is a 39-year-old national from the Philippines who first arrived in Hong Kong on 7 May 2008 to work as a foreign domestic helper and was last permitted to remain so in Hong Kong until 16 October 2012 or two weeks after the termination of her last employment contract. Upon the early termination of that contract on 16 August 2012, the applicant however did not depart from Hong Kong within the two weeks thereafter and instead overstayed until 14 March 2013 when she was arrested by