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.
Jorge Torres Vallejo
A civil engineer and economist by profession, he served as Dean of the Engineering College of La Libertad. He served as mayor of Trujillo from 1967 to 1968. In 1968 he became president of the La Libertad Development Corporation. He also served as president of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Tourism of La Libertad (1975-1976). Torres Vallejo was elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1978. He again elected as mayor of Trujillo between 1980 and 1983. He was elected a senator in the 1985 general election. He obtained 110,032 preferential votes, becoming the fifth most voted APRA senator in the country. In parliament he was a proponent of decentralization. Torres Vallejo voiced opposition to Alan García's moves towards nationalization of the banking sector. Subsequently, he was expelled from the party. Torres Vallejo was the first prominent APRA leader to voice public criticism against García's presidency.