Read the full judgment text of CACV 000072/1997 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 29 April 1997.
1. This is an appeal from a ruling of Yeung, J. given on 18 March 1997 in the course of the hearing of an application for a judicial review. The applicant in the judicial review (the appellant before us) is one Cong Van Ha and the respondent is the Director of Immigration. The case is one of those many tragic, indeed harrowing, cases involving an illegal immigrant from Vietnam of Chinese ethnic origin.