Read the full judgment text of HCMP 004308/1996 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 13 May 1997.
1. The Applicants comprise a number of families. They fled to Hong Kong from Vietnam in 1990 and 1991. Once in Hong Kong, they applied for refugee status, but their applications were refused. In these proceedings, the Applicants challenge the various decisions that they had not established a well-founded fear of persecution, and were therefore not refugees within the meaning of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees as amended by the 1967 Protocol to it ("the Convention").