Read the full judgment text of CACV 000117/1993 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 12 October 1993.
1. The appellants are two children: Chan Choi Hung, aged approximately seven-and-a-half years and Chan Choi Ping aged about six-and-a-half years. Their father (Mr. Chan) is a permanent Hong Kong resident. Their mother (Mrs. Chan) was born in China, with no right of abode in Hong Kong. There is no record of the births of the two children in any hospital or clinic in Hong Kong. The question as to where, in truth, these children were born is clearly important: if they were born in Hong Kong, even t