Read the full judgment text of CACC 000159/1994 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 18 August 1994.
1. Mortimer, J.A. (giving the judgment of the Court) The applicant, Chiu Wai-chun, was convicted on 31st March 1994 in the District Court of two offences. The first, of assisting others to enter into Hong Kong illegally; and secondly, of being an illegal immigrant herself. She was sentenced for those two offences to three years imprisonment on the first charge; and to fifteen months imprisonment on the second charge. Those sentences were to run concurrently, making three years in all. She seeks