Read the full judgment text of HCAL 3159/2019 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 9 November 2020.
1. The Applicant is a 37-year-old national of the Philippines who last arrived in Hong Kong on 5 September 2015 with permission to work as a foreign domestic helper until the expiration of her employment contract on 5 September 2017 or within 14 days of its early termination, but when it was prematurely terminated on 13 September 2015, she did not depart and instead overstayed in Hong Kong, and on 7 January 2016 she surrendered to the Immigration Department and raised a non-refoulement claim on