Read the full judgment text of HCMA 001238/2006 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 1 March 2007.
1. This is an appeal against a sentence of 15 months' imprisonment imposed for an offence of obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception. The appellant is a 35-year-old woman who was visiting Hong Kong on a visitor's permit. However, she was married to a permanent Hong Kong resident. They have two children - a girl aged 10 and a boy aged 4. The boy was born in Hong Kong so he has the right to live here and he lived here with his father. The girl was not born here, though she is here now on