Read the full judgment text of HCMA 001016/1999 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 26 January 2000.
1. The appellant, aged 21, and his father, aged 73, appeared before K A Browne Esq in the Magistrate's Court at Western on 5 October 1999. Each of them faced a charge of making a false representation to an Immigration Officer lawfully acting under or in execution of Part II of the Immigration Ordinance, Cap. 115. Such conduct is an offence under s. 42(1)(a) of that Ordinance. Both the appellant and his father pleaded guilty. Each of them was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. The appellant