Re Amandeep Singh

HCAL 1087/2017

[2019] HKCFI 276

IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

CONSTITUTIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW LIST
NO 1087 OF 2017

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D E C I S I O N

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1.On 19 December 2018 Deputy High Court Judge Lam refused to extend time for the applicant’s late application for leave to apply for judicial review of the decisions of the Director of Immigration and the Torture Claims Appeal Board in rejecting/dismissing his non-refoulement claim upon finding his delay with his application by almost seven months excessive, that he did not have any good reason for such delay, and that none of the grounds put forward by him as reasonably arguable or with any prospect of success in his intended application.

2.The applicant now by a summons issued on 24 December 2018 seeks leave to appeal against that decision.  In considering whether to grant leave the Court will have regard to the prospect of the intended appeal, but neither in his summons or his supporting affirmation did the applicant provide any draft or proposed ground for his intended appeal, nor did he identify any error in that decision or provide any particulars or explanation as to why he thinks that the decision was unfair or unreasonable.  As such I am unable to see any prospect of success in his intended appeal.

3.In the premises it would be futile to grant leave for what appears to me a hopeless appeal.  Accordingly I refuse his application for leave to appeal and dismiss his summons.

The applicant acted in person