CHIENG A LAC and 1375 others v (1) THE DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION(2) THE SUPERINTENDENT OF WHITEHEAD DETENTION CENTRE(3) THE SUPERINTENDENT OF HIGH ISLAND DETENTION CENTRE(4) THE SUPERINTENDENT OF LAI CHI KOK RECEPTION CENTRE(5) THE SUPERINTENDENT OF VICTORIA PRISON(6) THE SUPERINTENDENT OF KAI TAK VIETNAMESE MIGRANT TRANSIT CENTRE

Read the full judgment text of HCMP 003961/1996 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 7 January 1997.

1. Ms. Gladys Li Q.C. for the Applicants objects to the admissibility of various passages in some of the affirmations of Choy Ping Tai, the Assistant Director of Immigration and the head of the Vietnamese Refugees Branch of the Immigration Department. One of the grounds of objection is that a number of the passages of which complaint is made contain hearsay evidence which is not rendered admissible by any of the provisions of Part IV of the Evidence Ordinance (Cap. 8). The primary response of Mr