Read the full judgment text of HCAL 000019/1999 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 24 February 1999.
1. This is a habeas corpus application. It is the preliminary ex parte application under section 22A of the High Court Ordinance and under O.54, r.2 of the Rules of the High Court. It was originally placed before me as an application for leave to issue a writ for habeas corpus , and it seems that I was then expected to consider matters on the papers. But that was to confuse the procedure appropriate to habeas corpus on the one hand with the procedure for applications for leave to apply for judic