Ozoemena Onyeka Stephen, Alias Abduekarim Mohamed Chaibu, Alias Mohamed Chiabu v. Torture Claims Appeal Board / Non-refoulement Claims Petition Office

Case No.HCAL 160/2021[2021] HKCFI 586

Court

High Court CFI

Date10 Mar 2021

Judge—

Case Document

100%Judiciary

HCAL 160/2021

[2021] HKCFI 586

IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

CONSTITUTIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW LIST No. 160 of 2021

BETWEEN

	Ozoemena Onyeka Stephen, alias Abduekarim Mohamed Chaibu, alias Mohamed Chiabu	Applicant
	and
	Torture Claims Appeal Board/ Non-refoulement Claims Petition Office	Putative Respondent
	and
	Director of Immigration	Putative Interested Party

Application for Leave to Apply for Judicial Review

NOTIFICATION of the Judge’s decision (Ord. 53 r. 3)

Following;

consideration of documents only; or

consideration of documents and Applicant being absent in open court;

Order by Deputy High Court Judge K.W. Lung:

Leave to apply for Judicial Review be dismissed.

Observations for the Applicant (Order by Deputy High Court Judge K.W. Lung):

1.The applicant filed Form 86 dated 18 February 2021 for application for leave to apply for judicial review of the Decision dated 14 January 2021 of the Torture Claims Appeal Board (“the Board”)

2.The applicant’s Form 86 is amended to have the Board as proposed respondent and the Director or Immigration as the interested party.

3.By a letter dated 26 February 2021, the applicant informed this Court that he liked to withdraw his judicial review application. He did not state the reasons for him to do so in his letter.

4.It is clear that the applicant has no intention of proceeding with his application. As such, his application should be dismissed.

5.Accordingly, I accede to the applicant’s request and dismiss his application.

Dated the 10^th day of March 2021

	(M. O. WONG)(Ms)
	for Registrar, High Court

Where leave to apply has been granted, Applicants and their legal advisers are reminded of their obligation to reconsider the merits of their application in the light of the Respondent’s evidence

Notes for the Applicant: If leave has been granted, the Applicant or the Applicant’s solicitors must:
a) serve on the respondent and such interested parties as may be directed by the Court the order granting leave and any directions given within 14 days after the leave was granted (Order 53, rule 4A); b) issue the originating summons within 14 days after the grant of leave and serve it in accordance with Order 53, rule 5; and c) supply to every other party copies of every affidavit which the Applicant proposes to use at the hearing, including the affidavit in support of the application for leave (Order 53, rule 6(5)).		Sent to the Applicant on 10 March 2021 Ozoemena Onyeka Stephen, alias Abduekarim Mohamed Chaibu, alias Mohamed Chiabu Applicant’s ref. no: Nil.		Sent to the Putative Respondent / the Putative Respondent’s solicitors / such Putative Interested Parties as may be directed by the Court / the Putative Interested Parties’ solicitors on 10 March 2021 Torture Claims Appeal Board/Non-refoulement Claims Petition Office Putative Respondent’s ref. no.: - Director of Immigration Putative Interested Party’s ref. no.: INCL/30803/2020 Department of Justice, Senior Assistant Law Officer (Civil Law) (Civil Litigation Unit 2)

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