Read the full judgment text of HCMA 001126/1997 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. The Appellant was convicted after plea on the 5th November 1997 of possession of a forged Hong Kong identity card. Appellant had come legally to Hong Kong on 4th August 1997. He was picked up by the police on the 21st September 1997. In that time he had managed to lose his passport and was well in excess of the 4 days stay that had been granted to him on entry by the Immigration Department. When stopped he produced an identity card in another person's name and which bore a photograph differen