Read the full judgment text of HCAL 1001/2017 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 24 August 2018.
1. The applicant is a 40-year-old national of Indonesia who last arrived in Hong Kong on 3 August 2013 with permission to work as a foreign domestic helper until the expiration of her employment contract on 25 September 2014 or within two weeks of its early termination, but when her contract was prematurely terminated on 1 October 2013, she did not depart within two weeks as stipulated and instead overstayed until 29 October 2013 when she was arrested by the police. After she was referred to th