Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000291/2005 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 28 April 2005.
1. This is an appeal against sentence. The Appellant was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment for overstaying and to 7 months’ imprisonment for making a false representation to an Immigration officer. The false representation was made as she was leaving Hong Kong to go back to the Mainland. She did not wish to reveal that she had overstayed and, accordingly, told a lie to the effect that she had only sneaked into Hong Kong that day.