Read the full judgment text of CAAR 000010/1991 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 1 April 1992.
1. For many years it has been a criminal offence to enter Hong Kong without permission from an Immigration Officer, to remain without the authority of the Director of Immigration and to employ any person unlawfully in the Colony. Immigration Ordinance (Cap 115) ss 171 and 38(l). Since May 1988 it has been the policy of the Director to prosecute illegal immigrants from China found on building sites rather than immediately to repatriate them on arrest. Sentences of some 15 months imprisonment afte