Viswalingam Manikandan v. Torture Claims Appeal Board / Non-refoulement Claims Petition Office

Case No.HCAL 376/2021[2024] HKCFI 25

Court

High Court CFI

Date09 Jan 2024

Judge—

Case Document

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HCAL 376/2021

[2024] HKCFI 25

IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

CONSTITUTIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW LIST No. 376 of 2021

BETWEEN
	Viswalingam Manikandan	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 present in open court;

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

Leave to apply for Judicial Review be dismissed.

Observations for the Applicant:

THE APPLICATION

1.The applicant is an illegal immigrant by staying in Hong Kong without permission and he lodged a non-refoulement claim with the Director of Immigration (“the Director”). The Director rejected his application and he appealed to the Torture Claims Appeal Board (“the Board”). Having considered his evidence, the Board, by its Decision (“the Board’s Decision”), rejected his appeal and affirmed the Director’s Decision.

2.The applicant filed Form 86 on 18 March 2021 to apply for leave to apply for judicial review of the Board’s Decision. He requested a hearing.

3.The applicant appeared before the Court on 30 October 2023. He said that he wanted to withdraw his application as he called his family in prison and his family told him that all his problems have been solved. I advised him that if he applied to withdraw his application, the Court would dismiss his application. He confirmed that he wanted to withdraw his application.

4.There is nothing outstanding in this action.

5.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.”

6.The application is therefore dismissed.

Dated the 9^th day of January 2024

(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 9/1/2024 Viswalingam Manikandan 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 9/1/2024 Torture Claims Appeal Board/Non-refoulement Claims Petition Office Putative Respondent’s ref. no.: USM 13839/18/10/18/IN2733 Director of Immigration Putative Interested Party’s ref. no.: QA T/C 3305/18 (formerly RBCZ 12628/16)(PSO)(T6S134) Department of Justice, Senior Assistant Law Officer (Civil Law) (Civil Litigation Unit 2)

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Re Manik Md Mahamudun Nabi