Read the full judgment text of CACC 000566/1998 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 21 January 1999.
1. The applicant pleaded guilty before His Honour Judge Longley in the District Court on 29 October 1998 to two charges. The first charge was of burglary in that he entered as a trespasser a building in Shatin in the New Territories. The second charge was remaining in Hong Kong without the authority of the Director of Immigration after landing unlawfully in Hong Kong contrary to s.38(1)(b) of the Immigration Ordinance, Cap. 115. He was sentenced to 18 months on the first charge and to 15 months