Read the full judgment text of HCAL 437/2017 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. The applicant is an Indian national who arrived in Hong Kong on 17 August 2013 and overstayed. He was arrested by the police on 15 September 2013; only then did he lodge a non-refoulement protection claim. That was rejected by the Director of Immigration (“the Director”) on 16 June 2016 and 12 June 2017. He lodged an appeal/petition to the Torture Claims Appeal Board (“TCAB”) which rejected his appeal on 6 July 2017. He then filed a notice of application for leave to apply for judicial re