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Media & News
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| 16/7/2013 'Hong Kong Relents Over Refugees' from 'The Wall Street Journal' |
An article in The Wall Street Journal (attached pdf document), entitled ‘Hong Kong Relents Over Refugees’ (16/7/13), notes the announcement of the Hong Kong Government’s...Read more |
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| 13/4/2013 Sri Lankan first to win Hong Kong asylum under new appeal process |
We are thrilled that one of our long term clients has finally become a successful torture claimant pursuant to a decision made by Mr. Ian...Read more |
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| 8/9/2013 - 'UN Concern at Plight of Hong Kong Asylum Seekers Living in Squalor' - SCMP |
UN has warned the Hong Kong Government that it is failing to ensure their right to an adequate standard of living in relation to asylum...Read more |
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| 27/7/13 The Pearl Report - 'Life in Limbo' |
The Pearl Report recently featured a program on the plight of refugees in Hong Kong. The Report looked at, in particular, the system of ISS...Read more |
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| 11/7/2013 'A Look at the Lives of Hong Kong's Asylum Seekers' from 'The Wall Street Journal' |
Our firm has being involved in challenges against the Social Welfare Department since 2005 and will continue to represent clients as such similar matters arise....Read more |
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| October 2014 'Refugee and Non-Refoulement Law in Hong Kong: The Introduction of the Unified Screening Mechanism' |
Mark Daly's article, 'Refugee and Non-Refoulement Law in Hong Kong: The Introduction of the Unified Screening Mechanism', appeared in the October 2014 edition of 'Hong...Read more |
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| 'Refugee and CAT Law in Hong Kong: An Update' by Mark Daly |
In the October 2012 edition of 'Hong Kong Lawyer', Mark Daly wrote an article entitled, 'Refugee and CAT Law in Hong Kong: An Update'. In...Read more |
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| 16/4/2013 Immigration chief gives Sri Lankan refugee temporary right to work in HK |
Immigration granted one of the Applicants in MA & Ors, who is also the first screened-in torture claimant, permission to work on a discretionary basis....Read more |
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| 12/6/2013 Apple Daily reports on Hong Kong's backward political asylum laws |
Edward Snowden's temporary stay in Hong Kong triggered the local media's scrutiny into Hong Kong asylum laws. |
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| 18/7/2013 'Ways to Improve Situation of Refugees, Torture Claimants and Asylum Seekers in Hong Kong' - Our Written Submission |
A special meeting will be held on Monday 22 July 2013 at 3pm, entitled 'Ways to Improve Situation of Refugees, Torture Claimants and Asylum Seekers...Read more |
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| Press Statement (HCAL 15/2015) |
Press Statement (HCAL 15/2015)An application for leave to apply for judicial review was filed in Court on 30 January 2015. The case challenges the HKSAR...Read more |
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| 25/3/2013 BBC - "Hong Kong court denies domestic worker residency" |
"Hong Kong's top court has ruled that domestic workers are not eligible to apply for permanent residency, ending a two-year battle that has split opinion." |
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| 18.3.14 Arbitrary Arrest of Human Rights Defenders |
Two prominent human rights activists, Mr Ruki Fernando and Rev Praveen Mahesan, have been arbitrarily arrested and detained in Sri Lanka. Action is required to...Read more |
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| 9/9/2013 - 'Hong Kong's New Asylum System Harder to Exploit' SCMP |
The Immigration Department has claimed the new Unified Screening Mechanism set to take place at the end of 2013 will plug the loopholes in the...Read more |
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| 10/2/2014 SCMP 'UN Loses Role in Asylum Claims; |
The Hong Kong Government has announced that the Immigration Department will take responsibility for assessing all claims from 3 March 2014 and the UN refugee...Read more |
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| 18/2/2014 - GA v Director of Immigration - Right to Work |
The Court of Final Appeal judgment in the relation to the right to work case (GA v Director of Immigration) was handed down today. This...Read more |
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| 23/9/13 'Government Admits to Putting Asylum Seekers in Homes Not Fit to Live In' |
South China Morning Post - Social Welfare Department has admitted its contractor in charge of asylum seekers' welfare is housing clients in homes not fit...Read more |
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| 9/11/13 - 'Work Ban on Refugees Could Threaten Society' - SCMP |
On 9 November 2013 the South China Morning Post printed an article entitled, ‘Work Ban on Refugees Could Threaten Society’ (attached). The article discusses the...Read more |
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| 15/12/13 - 'My Life' Mark Daly |
Mark Daly appeared in the South China Morning Post's 'Post Magazine' on Sunday 15 December 2013. The article talks of Mark Daly's competitive drive that...Read more |
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| 18/9/2014 Gutierrez Joseph James, a minor, by Gutierrez Josephine B, also known as Gutierrez Josephine Balando, his mother and next friend v Commissioner of Registration & Registration of Persons Tribunal |
Joseph, now 17, is the son of a Foreign Domestic Worker. He was born in Hong Kong and has lived his whole life in Hong...Read more |
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