Read the full judgment text of HCAL 1418/2020 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 16 July 2021.
1. The 1 st Applicant (“A1”) is a 35-year-old national of Vietnam who entered Hong Kong illegally on 6 November 2014 and was arrested by police on the same day. After he was referred to the Immigration Department for investigation, he raised a non-refoulement claim on the basis that if he returned to Vietnam he would be harmed or killed by his creditor for failing to repay his loan, and when his two daughters, the 2 nd and 3 rd Applicant (“A2” and “A3”) now aged 14 and 11, also entered Hong Kong