Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000041/2007 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 13 March 2007.
1. This is an appeal against sentences which totalled 12 months' imprisonment. The appellant had pleaded guilty to six offences of making a false representation to an Immigration officer and one offence of using a false travel document. The offences arose in this way. Back in 1990, this appellant was 17 years old. Times were hard for her then in the Philippines and she decided, with her family's backing, that she would come to Hong Kong to work as a domestic helper. But at 17, she was too y