Vallejos v Commissioner of Registration
On 30 September 2011, Justice Johnson Lam of the Court of First Instance of the High Court (CFI) ruled in Vallejos' case that existing legislation restricting FDHs from qualifying for permanent residence contravened the Hong Kong Basic Law. Lam also found that Vallejos and Domingo, but not the three other applicants, had fulfilled the condition of taking Hong Kong as their only permanent home and being ordinarily resident in Hong Kong for seven years. The Court of Appeal of the High Court overturned the CFI's decision on Vallejos' case on 28 March 2012. Vallejos and Domingo then jointly appealed to the Court of Final Appeal (CFA), which heard their case on 26–28 February 2013; the CFA rejected their appeal on 25 March 2013.
Eduardo Valencia Ospina
Eduardo Valencia Ospina (b. 1940) is a Colombian lawyer, politician, and current member of the International Law Commission (ILC). Valencia Ospina joined the United Nations in 1964 and worked for 36 years for its legal and judicial activities, before retiring in 2000 with the rank of Assistant Secretary-General. Most notably, he was Senior Legal Officer in the Office of Legal Affairs of the Secretariat of the organisation and was the registrar of the International Court of Justice, also known as the ICJ, from 1987 to 2000. This makes him the second longest serving registrar of the ICJ. In November 2016 Valencia Ospina was elected to serve for a third term as a member of the International Law Commission. At the ILC, Valencia Ospina served as First Vice-Chair during its 69th session in 2017, and as Chair during its 70th session in 2018. In 2007, he was also appointed special rapporteur for the report on the "Protection of persons in the event of disasters". The Commission adopted the resulting "Draft articles on the protection of persons in the event of disasters" in 2016. The draft articles were subsequently submitted to the United Nations General Assembly and put on its agenda.