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MIDLAND REALTY INTERNATIONAL LTD AND OTHERS v. COMPETIOTION COMMISSION, HCAL 490/2024

Case Number

HCAL 490/2024

Court

Court of First Instance

(CFI)

Decision Date

20 March 2024

Parties

Applicant(s):

MIDLAND REALTY INTERNATIONAL LIMITED 1st Applicant HONG KONG PROPERTY SERVICES (AGENCY) LIMITED 2nd Applicant MIDLAND HOLDINGS LIMITED, MIDLAND REALTY INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, HONG KONG PROPERTY SERVICES (AGENCY) LIMITED, MIDLAND HOLDINGS LIMITED

Respondent(s):

COMPETIOTION COMMISSION

MIDLAND REALTY INTERNATIONAL LTD AND OTHERS v. COMPETIOTION COMMISSION

[2024] HKCFI 869

Court of First Instance20 March 2024

HCAL490/2024 MIDLAND REALTY INTERNATIONAL LTD AND OTHERS v. COMPETIOTION COMMISSION

HCAL 490/2024

[2024] HKCFI 869

IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

CONSTITUTIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW LIST No. 490 of 2024

BETWEEN
	MIDLAND REALTY INTERNATIONAL LIMITED	1^st Applicant
	HONG KONG PROPERTY SERVICES (AGENCY) LIMITED	2^ndApplicant
	MIDLAND HOLDINGS LIMITED	3^rd Applicant
	and
	COMPETIOTION COMMISSION	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 counsel for the Applicant in court;

Order by The Honourable Mr Justice Coleman :

1. Leave to apply for judicial review granted on the papers.

2. The parties are to liaise with a view to agreeing directions for the Court to consider making to take the matter to a substantive hearing. See Practice Direction 26.1.

Observations:

Dated the 20^th day of March 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 20/3/2024 Messrs. Haldanes Solicitors for the Applicant Ref.: 2023-032118/FKN/FXY/JWL/byf		Sent/Handed to the Respondent/the Respondent’s solicitors / such interested parties as may be directed by the Court / the interested parties’ solicitors on 20/3/2024 Competition Commission The Putative Respondent Ref.: Nil

MIDLAND REALTY INTERNATIONAL LTD AND OTHERS v. COMPETIOTION COMMISSION

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