深圳蔚來教育有限公司, Trading As Szicc (深圳國際課程中心) v. Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority

Case No.HCAL 2029/2024[2024] HKCFI 3201
Court
High Court CFI
Date07 Nov 2024
Judge
Case Document
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HCAL 2029/2024

[2024] HKCFI 3201

IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

CONSTITUTIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW LIST No. 2029 of 2024

BETWEEN    
深圳蔚來教育有限公司, trading as SZICC (深圳國際課程中心) Applicant
and
Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority 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 senior counsel and the counsel for the applicant;

Order by The Honourable Mr Justice Coleman :

  1. Leave to apply for Judicial Review on both grounds be granted.
  2. HKEAA shall file and serve evidence in opposition by 4:00 pm on 21 November 2024.
  3. The Applicant shall file and serve evidence in reply (or so advised) by 4:00 pm on 28 November 2024.
  4. The date of the substantive hearing to be fixed in consultation but not necessarily in accordance with Counsel’s diary, on one of 2, 5, 6, 9-11 December 2024.
  5. Liberty to apply.

Observations:

/

Dated the 7th day of November 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 7/11/2024
 
Messrs. Wellington Legal LLP

Solicitors for the Applicant
Ref.: 2/1025/24/2
  Sent/Handed to the Respondent/the Respondent’s solicitors / such interested parties as may be directed by the Court / the interested parties’ solicitors on 7/11/2024

Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority
The Putative Respondent
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
Ref.: Nil
 


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