Read the full judgment text of HCMP 003417/1994 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 24 January 1995.
2. The plight of a particular group of migrants from Vietnam (as Vietnamese boat people are now called) was considered by Sears J. in Re Pham Van Ngo [1991] 1 HKLR 499. He spoke eloquently about the suffering which migrants from Vietnam undergo, and about the burden which Hong Kong is shouldering in seeking to accommodate and deal with them - a burden which Sears J. said must at times seem to the citizens and Government of Hong Kong to be intolerable. I share his concern about the detention with