Read the full judgment text of HCAL 47/2018 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 7 September 2018.
1. The applicant is a 44-year-old national of Sri Lanka who last arrived in Hong Kong on 26 July 2007 with permission to work as a foreign domestic helper until the expiration of her employment contract on 26 July 2009 or within 14 days of its early termination. However, when her contract was prematurely terminated on 30 November 2007 she did not depart at the end of her extended stay on 4 January 2008 and instead overstayed until 19 April 2010 when she was arrested by the police. After she wa