Hong Kong Case Law: Decisions & Judgments

Topic

Child custody and care

Legal area

Court

16 Sept 2025

GURUNG RAM BAHADUR v. DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION

Citation

[2025] HKCFI 2367
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCAL1223/2025

Leave dismissed because the Director lawfully exercised discretion: the Applicant failed to meet the Dependant Policy or show exceptional humanitarian grounds, the Director had considered the representations and evidence, gave lawful weight to the absence of a strong connection with the child and interim care being granted to the mother, and the decisions were not irrational or unlawful.
12 Oct 2023

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Citation

[2023] HKFC 199
Court

Family Court
Case number

FCMC10204/2021

Applying the broad‑brush approach the court balanced the parties' incomes and reasonable child needs, concluded the respondent was in financial difficulty and not the beneficiary of indefinite third‑party support, but could pay a sum higher than HKD 5,500; fixing interim child maintenance at 20% of respondent's monthly salary (HKD 6,266) together with applicant's available funds provides a fair maintenance budget until final hearing.
10 Mar 2020

MT v. HYC

Citation

[2020] HKFC 55
Court

Family Court
Case number

FCMC12163/2012

Applying the paramount welfare principle, the judge found bilingual education and improved Chinese competence, the shorter commute and potential psychological benefit of distance from parental conflict outweighed the status quo; extra tuition was unlikely to replicate CIS's dual-language advantage; the child's current expressed wish to attend CIS, considered alongside expert material and the family's circumstances, supported ordering transfer to CIS, to commence in the summer term 2020.

Hong Kong Case Law

GURUNG RAM BAHADUR v. DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION

潘 對 李

MT v. HYC

潘對李