Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000720/1996 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 15 August 1996.
1. This is an appeal against sentence. The appellant came to Hong Kong on 23rd July 1995, and he was permitted to land on condition that his stay was limited until 4th August 1995. He breached that condition and stayed well beyond that date. That was the first offence. Then in November 1995, he was arrested on suspicion of overstaying and he then falsely represented to the immigration authorities that he was someone else, namely, his brother, who was in Hong Kong. The ruse was not then immediate