{"id":1103,"date":"2024-10-17T20:07:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T12:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2024-10-20T20:11:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T12:11:19","slug":"magistrate-sentenced-a-mainland-student-pleading-guilty-to-making-a-false-statement-to-the-immigration-department-for-immediate-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/magistrate-sentenced-a-mainland-student-pleading-guilty-to-making-a-false-statement-to-the-immigration-department-for-immediate-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Magistrate sentenced a mainland student pleading guilty to making a false statement to the immigration department for immediate release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<section class=\"section news-detail-section\" id=\"section_1293896678\">\n\t\t<div class=\"bg section-bg fill bg-fill  bg-loaded\" >\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div id=\"text-3623437133\" class=\"text breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #627A80;\nfont-family: Merriweather;\nfont-size: 13px;\nfont-style: normal;\nfont-weight: 400;\nline-height: 150%; \/* 19.5px *\/\nletter-spacing: 0.39px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/\">Home<\/a> \/ <a href=\"\/news\/\">News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_1293896678 {\n  padding-top: 0px;\n  padding-bottom: 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\t<section class=\"section news-detail-section\" id=\"section_1103180539\">\n\t\t<div class=\"bg section-bg fill bg-fill  bg-loaded\" >\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-17474164\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-406082495\" class=\"col medium-12 small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div id=\"text-3273325367\" class=\"text h3\">\n\t\t\n\n<p>Magistrate sentenced a mainland student pleading guilty to making a false statement to the immigration department for immediate release<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"text-2901666711\" class=\"text h5\">\n\t\t\n\n<p><strong>HKSAR v Wu * (\u5433**)<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-2901666711 {\n  font-size: 1.25rem;\n  text-align: left;\n  color: #003d4c;\n}\n#text-2901666711 > * {\n  color: #003d4c;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"text-4260557697\" class=\"text txt-bold\">\n\t\t\n\n<p>17 October 2024<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_1945296370\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/37.-Wu-Linhui-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/37.-Wu-Linhui-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/37.-Wu-Linhui-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/37.-Wu-Linhui-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/37.-Wu-Linhui-18x10.jpg 18w, https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/37.-Wu-Linhui.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_1945296370 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"gap-433401479\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-433401479 {\n  padding-top: 0px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #gap-433401479 {\n    padding-top: 40px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<p>The court sentenced a mainland student using false academic qualifications to enter into Hong Kong to 17 weeks imprisonment leading to her immediate release. <br \/><br \/>The mainland student, who held a bachelor\u2019s degree from a university in the PRC, made false representations to the immigration department and a local university by saying that she held a bachelor\u2019s degree from a university in New York. Eventually, the defendant was offered to study in the local university\u2019s master degree programme. The defendant was initially charged with (1) obtaining services by deception and (2) causing to be made a false statement for the purpose of obtaining an entry permit. <br \/><br \/>Upon negotiation, the prosecution allowed the defendant to plead guilty to charge 2 and charge 1 was withdrawn. In mitigation, the court was urged to pass a sentence allowing the defendant\u2019s immediate release. <br \/><br \/>After hearing mitigation, the magistrate adopted a starting point of 27 weeks\u2019 imprisonment. The sentence was reduced by one-third to reflect the defendant\u2019s guilty plea. Due to the defendant\u2019s good character and low (if any) risk of re-offending, the magistrate further reduced the sentence by 1 week. Given that the defendant had been remanded for 17 weeks already, the court ordered the defendant to be immediately released. <br \/><br \/>Simon So represented the defendant for plea in mitigation.<\/p>\n\t<div id=\"gap-942767662\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-942767662 {\n  padding-top: 60px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t<div class=\"ux-menu stack stack-col justify-start ux-menu--divider-solid\">\n\t\t\n\n\t<div class=\"ux-menu-link flex menu-item menu-button-link\">\n\t\t<a class=\"ux-menu-link__link flex\" href=\"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/news\/\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ux-menu-link__text\">\n\t\t\t\tBack to News\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_1103180539 {\n  padding-top: 0px;\n  padding-bottom: 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magistrate Tsang Chung-yiu sentenced a mainland student using false academic qualifications to enter into Hong Kong to 17 weeks imprisonment leading to her immediate release. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions\/1107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}