Read the full judgment text of HCMA 001070/1989 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 11 October 1989.
1. The appellant was convicted, on his plea of guilty, to a charge of remaining in Hong Kong without permission after having landed unlawfully, contrary to section 38(1)(b) of the Immigration Ordinance. He was arrested in the New Territories and admitted that it was his second time to commit this offence. In mitigation he merely said that life was hard in China where he was a farmer, and that he was the sole breadwinner of his family. The learned magistrate imposed a sentence of 12 months impris