Apolonio Agnes Zamora and Another v. Torture Claims Appeal Board / Non-refoulement Claims Petition Office

Case No.HCAL 592/2020[2023] HKCFI 1587

Court

High Court CFI

Date19 Jun 2023

Judge—

Case Document

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HCAL 592/2020

[2023] HKCFI 1587

IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

CONSTITUTIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW LIST No. 592 of 2020

BETWEEN
	Apolonio Agnes Zamora	1^st Applicant
	Muhammad Malikah Awan	2^nd Applicant
	and
	Torture Claims Appeal Board/	Putative
	Non-refoulement Claims Petition Office	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:

1.The 1^st applicant is the mother and the 2^nd applicant is her daughter. They are illegal immigrants by staying in Hong Kong without the permission of the Director of Immigration (“the Director”). They lodged non-refoulement claim jointly with the Immigration Department and was rejected by the Director. They jointly appealed to the Torture Claims Appeal Board (the “Board”) and, by the Board’s Decision, their appeal was dismissed.

2.The applicants filed Form 86 on 9 April 2020 for application for leave to apply for judicial review of the Board’s Decision.

3.By affirmation filed on 16 February 2023, the 1^st applicant, on behalf of herself and the 2^nd applicant, applied to withdraw their application, saying that she wants to go back to her country as her problem in her country has been solved. There is nothing outstanding in this action.

4.In accordance with the Court of Appeal in Re Manik Md Mahamudun Nabi [2022] HKCA 471 at §19:

“(1) The applicant on his own motion applied to the Court to withdraw his application for leave to apply for judicial review. The Judge acceded to his application, whereupon there was nothing outstanding in the action. The Judge was correct to conclude the action by ordering a dismissal of the application instead of leaving the action at large.”

5.The applicants’ joint application is therefore dismissed.

Dated the 19^th day of June 2023

(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 19/6/2023 Apolonio Agnes Zamora and Muhammad Malikah Awan 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 19/6/2023 Torture Claims Appeal Board/Non-refoulement Claims Petition Office Putative Respondent’s ref. no.: USM 4474/16/8/193/F257 & USM 6522/17/3/177/F356 Director of Immigration Putative Interested Party’s ref. no.: RBCL/2254/14 (CZ); RBCL/4072/16 (CZ) Department of Justice, Senior Assistant Law Officer (Civil Law) (Civil Litigation Unit 2)

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Re Manik Md Mahamudun Nabi