Read the full judgment text of HCMA 001204/1999 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 18 December 1999.
1. The appellant Madam Chak Yuk Wan, arrived in Hong Kong from China and overstayed for some 11 months. She surrendered herself to the authorities and was brought before the court. Upon her plea of guilty, the learned magistrate imposed a one-month prison sentence. However, there is a sentence of three months' imprisonment suspended for two years in operation at the time when she pleaded to the present charge. The learned magistrate, in my view quite rightly so, activated the suspended sentence.