Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000299/2001 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 24 April 2001.
1. The appellant was convicted by Mr Thomas Tsang, sitting at Kwun Tong Magistracy, of the offence of breach of a deportation order and was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. She was granted leave to appeal against the conviction out of time. The main ground of appeal is that when the deportation order was originally served on her in 1998, it was not explained to her that she could never return to Hong Kong. She claimed that the interpreter at the time had said to her that, if the imprisonm