Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000034/2007 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 21 March 2007.
1. This case is listed as an appeal against sentence but, in truth, it is an appeal against conviction, as the substance of the appeal is a claim by the Appellant that he is a mere overstayer and not someone who had landed unlawfully in Hong Kong and then remained, for it was for that latter conduct that he received a sentence of 15 months’ imprisonment. He made the same claim in front of the Magistrate and there was a trial about whether or not he was an illegal immigrant. The evidence of the