Read the full judgment text of HCAL 1053/2017 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 29 June 2018.
1. The 1 st and 2 nd applicants are husband and wife (“A1” and “A2” respectively) and the 3 rd applicant (“A3”) is their teenaged daughter all of whom are nationals of the Philippines who came to Hong Kong on separate occasions in 2016 as visitors but overstayed and subsequently lodged their non-refoulement claim with the Immigration Department on the basis that if they returned to the Philippines they would be harmed or killed by A1’s creditor for failing to repay his debts. All the applicants