Midland Realty International Ltd and Others v. Competiotion Commission

Read the full judgment text of HCAL 490/2024 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 20 March 2024.

1.  Leave to apply for judicial review granted on the papers.

Case No.HCAL 490/2024[2024] HKCFI 869
Court
High Court CFI
Date20 Mar 2024
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Case Document
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HCAL 490/2024

[2024] HKCFI 869

IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

CONSTITUTIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW LIST No. 490 of 2024

BETWEEN

  MIDLAND REALTY INTERNATIONAL LIMITED 1st Applicant
  HONG KONG PROPERTY SERVICES (AGENCY) LIMITED 2nd Applicant
  MIDLAND HOLDINGS LIMITED 3rd Applicant
  and  
  COMPETIOTION COMMISSION Putative Respondent

Application for Leave to Apply for Judicial Review
NOTIFICATION of the Judge’s decision (Ord. 53 r. 3)

Following:

    consideration of the documents only;            or
   consideration of the documents and oral submission by the counsel for the Applicant in court;

Order by The Honourable Mr Justice Coleman :

1.  Leave to apply for judicial review granted on the papers.

2.  The parties are to liaise with a view to agreeing directions for the Court to consider making to take the matter to a substantive hearing. See Practice Direction 26.1.

Observations:

/

Dated the 20th day of March 2024.

  (Alvin KWOK)
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 his 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/Handed to the Applicant/the Applicant’s solicitors on 20/3/2024

Messrs. Haldanes
Solicitors for the Applicant
Ref.: 2023-032118/FKN/FXY/JWL/byf
  Sent/Handed to the Respondent/the Respondent’s solicitors / such interested parties as may be directed by the Court / the interested parties’ solicitors on 20/3/2024

Competition Commission
The Putative Respondent
Ref.: Nil

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