The CFA says the right of abode provision in the Basic Law is clear enough and a further interpretation is unnecessary.
The court also extended the right of abode to children born out of wedlock to a parent who is a permanent Hong Kong resident.
Caz Yon was one of the councillors who resigned after it became clear that property rights and the right of abode were not going to be forthcoming.
It made a previous ruling in 2001 allowing mainland citizens born in Hong Kong to enjoy the right of abode regardless of their parents' residency status in the city.
The government had wanted advice on whether the Basic Law, Hong Kong's mini-constitution, grants the right of abode to children born in Hong Kong to mainland mothers who are neither local residents nor married to Hong Kong men - often referred to as "two not's" because neither of their parents are from Hong Kong.
And since the crown allows no right of abode to anyone not working or dependent on a worker, nor the right to own private property, no jobs means no people.
The issue of right of abode is a sensitive subject in Hong Kong, with campaigners arguing that not allowing foreign domestic workers to settle in Hong Kong amounts to discrimination.
Locals noticed that it was at the time that talk of a right of abode was at its height that, for the first time, a fence went up about the American base.
In 2005 this process came to a shuddering halt as the British government made clear that it did not intend, under any circumstances, to allow a right of abode on the island, and that all property was to remain Crown property.
The rift arose from a Jan. 29 judgment by the CFA. It granted right of abode in Hong Kong to possibly hundreds of thousands of mainland children of local residents.
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