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1. This is an application for leave to appeal to the Court of Final Appeal. What is quite clear is that the applicant wishes to argue the merits of its underlying case. It is not to be denied that the questions raised in the underlying case are matters of great general and public importance. They relate to the application of the Limitation Ordinance to questions of trespassers in the New Territories and as to whether or not there is a deprivation of rights. However, that was not the point of