7 Nov 2018
COMILANG, MILAGROS TECSON AND ANOTHER v. DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION
- Citation
- [2018] HKCFA 53
- Court
- Court of Final Appeal
- Case number
- FAMV39/2018
The Court of Final Appeal (Leave) panel held that two specific questions—(1) whether the Director must take into account the parent-and-child family's enjoyment of applicable fundamental rights when a foreign national parent applies to remain to care for a HKSAR permanent resident child, and (2) whether s11 of the Bill of Rights Ordinance exempts immigration authorities from taking into account Basic Law rights of the child in such decisions—are matters of great general or public importance; accordingly leave to appeal was granted confined to those questions and the appeal was set down for he…