Read the full judgment text of HCAL 223/2018 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 11 January 2019.
1. The applicant is a 45-year-old national of Indonesia who last arrived in Hong Kong on 26 August 2007 with permission to work as a foreign domestic helper until the expiration of her employment contract on 18 July 2009 or within two weeks thereafter when she did not depart and instead overstayed until 12 October 2012 when she was arrested by police for taking unapproved employment for which she was subsequently convicted and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, and later upon being served