Read the full judgment text of HCAL 258/2021 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 30 June 2021.
1. The Applicant is a 37-year-old national of Columbia who arrived in Hong Kong sometime in 2011 as a visitor but overstayed since 7 June 2011 and subsequently surrendered to the Immigration Department when he raised a torture claim, but before the process of his claim could commence with the usual briefing by an immigration officer, the Applicant could not be contacted by the Department.