Read the full judgment text of CACV 000161/1997 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 16 October 1997.
1. The applicant is an asylum seeker from Vietnam. He arrived in Hong Kong on 18 April 1991. He is 28 and is single. He was refused refugee status by the Director of Immigration and he asked for his case to be reviewed by the Refugee Status Review Board. On 29 July 1994 the Board heard his review and confirmed the decision of the Director of Immigration. On 18 August 1994 he was notified that the RSRB had confirmed the Director of Immigration's decision that he was not a refugee. Consequently, h