Read the full judgment text of HCMP 001972/1996 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 27 June 1996.
1. These applications for judicial review reveal an interesting but sad part of Hong Kong's history. After the end of the Civil War in China, large numbers of refugees, mainly nationalist soldiers and their families, came to Hong Kong. They were settled originally in Mount Davis and on June 26th, 1950, which is 46 years ago yesterday, they were taken to Rennie's Mill. The method of this has been described in detail by Mr Wong Pei Chun who is the lead applicant and now aged 78. They were loaded o