Read the full judgment text of DCCC 119/2013 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 12 March 2013.
1. Both of you are very fortunate, it seems to me, because having regard to the prosecution’s policy of charging offences in circumstances such as these where the unlawful entrants into Hong Kong are not Mainland Chinese citizens, you have been charged with an offence which attracts a lesser sentence as a maximum than the one that would be charged if the unlawful entrants were Mainland Chinese, for which the sentences are far greater. I think you are fortunate in that regard.