Read the full judgment text of HCAL 1653/2019 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 30 September 2020.
1. The Applicant is a 34-year-old national of the Philippines who last arrived in Hong Kong on 20 May 2009 with permission to remain as a visitor up to 29 May 2009 when she did not depart and instead overstayed, and on 10 June 2009 she surrendered to the Immigration Department and raised a torture claim on the basis that if she returned to the Philippines she would be harmed or killed by her former boyfriend for leaving him, and after her torture claim was rejected, she then sought non-refouleme