23 Dec 2014
香港特別行政區 訴 PHAM VAN PHONG
- Citation
- 香港特別行政區 訴 PHAM VAN PHONG
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA124/2014
Because the appellant admitted illegal entry and unauthorised employment and also admitted using a forged identity card to obtain employment, the appropriate sentences are 18 months for the s38AA offence (increased from the usual 15 months) and 15 months for the forged ID offence; however, the offences are closely linked and the correct approach is to order the sentences to run concurrently rather than partly consecutively, yielding an effective total term of 18 months; the magistrate's order for partial consecutive execution (total 21 months) was therefore set aside and substituted.