Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000414/2001 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 15 June 2001.
1. On 23 March 2001, after a trial lasting three days, Miss Eda Loh, Magistrate, convicted the appellant, a male whose age level as has been established by bone test to be 18 years and a National of the PRC, for the offence committed in February 2001 of remaining in Hong Kong without the authority of the Director of Immigration, after having landed unlawfully in Hong Kong. She sentenced him to 18 months' imprisonment. Now he appeals that sentence upon the general ground it is too severe.