Vallejos v Commissioner of Registration
Throughout the rest of October and November, Lam heard arguments and delivered judgments in two further FDH residence cases, namely "Irene R. Domingo and Daniel L. Domingo v. Commissioner of Registration" (HCAL 127 and 128/2010) and "Josephine B. Gutierrez and Joseph James Gutierrez v. Commissioner of Registration" (HCAL 136 and 137/2010). Among those applicants, only Daniel Domingo was found to have satisfied the "ordinary residence" requirement entitling him to apply for permanent residence; Lam found that Domingo's wife Irene's period of ordinary residence was interrupted by a period of overstay in which she remained in Hong Kong without the authority of the Director of Immigration. He separately ruled that Josephine Gutierrez had not taken positive steps to establish Hong Kong as her only place of permanent residence, meaning that she and her son Joseph James were not entitled to apply for permanent residence either.
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.