Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000711/1996 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 15 August 1996.
1. This is an appeal against sentence. The appellant came to Hong Kong on 21st September 1995 from the Mainland. She was allowed to stay until 28th September, but she stayed well beyond that. On 7th December, she opened a bank account and in doing so used an identity card in the name of someone else who had lost it. Then in May 1996 she used the card again in an attempt to operate that account. She was arrested. She was charged with two offences of using an identity card which related to another