Read the full judgment text of HCAL 549/2018 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 17 March 2020.
1. The 1 st Applicant (“A1”) is the mother and the other two Applicants are her sons, all nationals of Vietnam who entered Hong Kong illegally on separate occasions in 2013 and 2016 and subsequently surrendered to the Immigration Department when they raised their non-refoulement claim on the basis that if they returned to Vietnam they would be harmed or killed by the 1 st Applicant’s creditors for failing to repay her loans. They were subsequently released on recognizance pending the determinat