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1. The Applicants in these proceedings for judicial review are asylum-seekers from Vietnam. There are 1,241 of them. They all arrived in Hong Kong between 16th June 1988 and 2nd June 1989. Those dates are significant in the history of Hong Kong's treatment of asylum-seekers from Vietnam. 16th June 1988 was the date when the Government's new policy of no longer automatically accepting asylum-seekers from Vietnam as refugees took effect. 2nd June 1989 was the date when the legislative amendments w