Read the full judgment text of HCMA 001045/1995 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 12 March 1996.
1. This was an appeal against sentences of 15 months and 2 weeks for theft and remaining in Hong Kong without the authority of the Director of Immigration. These were perfectly proper sentences but at the time of sentencing, the Magistrate was unaware of disasters which had befallen the Appellant's family. Her son had been admitted to hospital, diagnosed as having pneumonia and heart failure. I felt that this was sufficiently strong humanitarian ground to allow the appeal. In any event the Appel