11 Dec 2000
SIN HOI CHU AND OTHERS v. THE DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION
- Citation
- SIN HOI CHU AND OTHERS v. THE DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV417/2000
The Court held that Art.158(3) protects only the rights of the actual parties to the earlier CFA litigations (and narrowly those persons the Director had expressly treated as parties or those falling within the limited Concession as properly defined); the NPCSC Interpretation is binding and retrospective to 1 July 1997; the Concession was a policy limited to claimants who (while physically in Hong Kong during 1 July 1997–29 January 1999) made ROA claims to the Immigration Department of which the Department had a record; applicants did not have a legitimate expectation that the CFA judgments w…