Read the full judgment text of HCAL 535/2018 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 18 September 2020.
1. The Applicant is a 36-year-old national of Vietnam who arrived in Hong Kong on 14 December 2013 with his wife with permission to remain as visitors up to 21 December 2013 when they did not depart and instead overstayed, and later surrendered to the Immigration Department and jointly raised a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if they returned to Vietnam they would be harmed or killed by the Applicant’s creditor for failing to repay his loan. They were subsequently released on recognizan