Lau Tak Kee Motor Engineering and Equipment Ltd v. Director of Lands for and on behalf of the District Lands Office, North, Lands Department

Case No.HCAL 58/2025[2025] HKCFI 302
Court
High Court CFI
Date09 Jan 2025
Judge
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HCAL 58/2025

[2025] HKCFI 302

IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

CONSTITUTIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW LIST No. 58 of 2025

BETWEEN

  LAU TAK KEE MOTOR ENGINEERING AND EQUIPMENT Applicant
  LIMITED (劉德記汽車工程有限公司)  
  and  
  DIRECTOR OF LANDS for and on behalf of THE DISTRICT LANDS Putative Respondent
  OFFICE, NORTH, LANDS DEPARTMENT  

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 9th day of January 2025.

  (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 9/1/2025

Messrs. David Y.Y. Fung & Co.
Solicitors for the Applicant
Ref.: Y-5107-24
  Sent/Handed to the Respondent/the Respondent’s solicitors / such interested parties as may be directed by the Court / the interested parties’ solicitors on 9/1/2025

DIRECTOR OF LANDS for and on behalf of THE DISTRICT LANDS OFFICE, NORTH, LANDS DEPARTMENT
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.: DLONR 208/NAT/79



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