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HCAL 559/2024
[2024] HKCFI 1093
IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE
HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
CONSTITUTIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW LIST No. 559 of 2024
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THE HONG KONG JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION
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Applicant
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THE COMMISSIONER FOR TRANSPORT
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Putative Respondent |
Application for Leave to Apply for Judicial Review
NOTIFICATION of the Judge’s decision (Ord. 53 r. 3)
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consideration of the documents only; or |
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consideration of the documents and oral submission by the Applicant; |
Order by The Honourable Mr Justice Coleman :
1.Leave to apply for judicial review is granted on the papers.
2.The parties are to liaise with a view to proposing jointly agreed directions to lead to a substantive hearing of the application for judicial review. The parties are referred to paragraphs 8-13 of Practice Direction 26.1.
3.The parties are to provide availability dates (i.e. not before 8 July 2024) for the substantive hearing within 14 days.
4.Liberty to apply.
5.All questions of costs are reserved.
Observations:
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Dated the 17th day of April 2024.
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(Alvin KWOK) |
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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:
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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)). |
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Sent/Handed to the Applicant/the Applicant’s solicitors on 17/4/2024
Messrs. Ho Tse Wai & Partners
Solicitors for the Applicant
Ref.: L/JM/KH/15534/24(KH)hy |
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Sent/Handed to the Respondent/the Respondent’s solicitors / such interested parties as may be directed by the Court / the interested parties’ solicitors on 17/4/2024
Department of Justice
For the Putative Respondent
Ref.: HCAL 559/24 |
Form CALL-1
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