Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000816/2000 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 14 September 2000.
1. The appellant is aged 36 years. She was found in the small hours of 28 July 2000 in a hut in Tin Shui Wai by police officers who were carrying out an anti-illegal immigration operation. She had no proof of identity and she admitted that she was an illegal immigrant. Before the magistrate, she pleaded guilty, and he sentenced her to 15 months' imprisonment for the offence of remaining in Hong Kong without the authority of the Director of Immigration having landed unlawfully.