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HCAL 1530/2024

[2024] HKCFI 2461

IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

CONSTITUTIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW LIST No. 1530 of 2024

BETWEEN
	QBD	Applicant
	and
	Secretary for Security	1^st Putative Respondent
	Director of Public Prosecutions	2^nd Putative Respondent
	Secretary for Justice	3^rd Putative Respondent
	Commissioner of Police	4^th 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 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.Liberty to apply.

4.All questions of costs are reserved.

Observations:

/

Dated the 10^th day of September 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 11/9/2024 Messrs. Daly & Associates Solicitors for the Applicant Ref.: 8114-QBDJ/MT/YP		Sent/Handed to the Respondent/the Respondent’s solicitors / such interested parties as may be directed by the Court / the interested parties’ solicitors on 11/9/2024 Secretary for Security Director of Public Prosecutions Secretary for Justice Commissioner of Police The 1^st to 4^th Putative Respondents c/o Senior Assistant Law Officer (Civil Law) (Civil Litigation Unit) 2 Department of Justice 6th Floor, Main and East Wing, Justice Place 18 Lower Albert Road, Central, Hong Kong