Read the full judgment text of HCMA 001149/1998 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 8 January 1999.
1. This case was listed before me as an appeal against conviction for an offence of remaining in Hong Kong without the authority of the Director of Immigration. It became plain on hearing the appellant, who had pleaded guilty to the offence before the learned Magistrate, that he wished to appeal not against his conviction but against his sentence of 15 months' imprisonment. I gave him leave to appeal against that sentence out of time and treated the hearing as the appeal.