Read the full judgment text of HCAL 000040/1999 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 24 June 1999.
1. The is another case about the right of abode in Hong Kong. Previous cases have been about people of Chinese nationality. The twist in this case is that it is about a man who is not a Chinese national. He is a Pakistani who has lived in Hong Kong for the last 35 years or so. As in other right of abode cases, the question is whether rights given by the Basic Law have been cut down by the Immigration Ordinance. The other twist in the story is that, although some of the statutory provisions which
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