Read the full judgment text of HCAL 867/2018 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 28 July 2020.
1. The Applicant is a national of the Philippines who came to Hong Kong in February 2013 for employment as a domestic helper. Her contract was prematurely terminated in November 2013. She was later convicted of theft and sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment. While she was serving the sentence in prison, she made a non-refoulement claim on the basis that she would be harmed or killed by her neighbour because of their dispute in November 2012 in the place she lived, if she returns to her countr