Read the full judgment text of HCAL 000220/2000 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 5 May 2000.
1. There are before me three applications for leave to apply for judicial review. I was not prepared to grant leave on the papers. I directed that the oral applications be heard on the same day because the cases are remarkably similar both as to the facts and as to the issues of law which are raised. In fact, these issues of law are exactly the same in each case and each applicant is represented by the same firm. Each applicant is a female national of Vietnam; each came to Hong Kong in 1999; eac