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Hong Kong Case Law

Record-keeping of claims
  • 4 Jan 2008

    NG SIU TUNG AND OTHERS v. DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION

    Citation
    NG SIU TUNG AND OTHERS v. DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCAL81/1999

    Where an applicant cannot point to any record in the possession of the Immigration Department evidencing a claim for right of abode, the concession cannot apply; allegations that officers negligently failed to record a claim are insufficient. Therefore each application fails where no departmental record exists, regardless of credibility of oral assertions absent corroborative contemporaneous records.