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1. On 30 October 2017, the Appeal Committee [1] granted leave to the applicant to appeal to the Court of Final Appeal on a number of questions of great general and public importance as set out in the Determination of that date. The appeal is fixed for hearing on 19 April 2018. The appeal, broadly speaking, deals with various aspects of the making of what is known as a protective costs order (“PCO”) in public law proceedings in which a party (usually an applicant) seeks an order protecting or l