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HCAL 43/2020
[2020] HKCFI 1584
IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE
HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
CONSTITUTIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW LIST No. 43 of 2020
BETWEEN
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Applicant |
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Torture Claims Appeal Board/
Non-refoulement Claims Petition Office |
Putative Respondent |
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Director of Immigration |
Putative Interested Party |
Application for Leave to Apply for Judicial Review
NOTIFICATION of the Judge’s decision (Ord. 53 r. 3)
Following;
Order by Deputy High Court Judge K.W. Lung:
Application for leave to apply for Judicial Review be dismissed.
Observations for the Applicant:
1. The applicant’s Form 86 is amended to have the Torture Claims Appeal Board as proposed respondent and the Director or Immigration as interested party.
2. This is the applicant’s application for leave to apply for judicial review of the Decision dated 20 December 2019 of the Torture Claims Appeal Board/Non-refoulement Claims Petition Office (“the Board’s Decision”).
3. The applicant is a Bangladeshi national. He is an illegal immigrant. He applied to the Director for non-refoulement claim. The Director rejected his application.
4. The applicant appealed to the Board against the Director’s Decision.
5. By the Board’s Decision, the Board rejected his appeal and confirmed the Director’s Decision.
6. The applicant filed Form 86 on 6 January 2020 for leave to apply for judicial review of the Board’s Decision.
7. The applicant filed an affirmation on 7 May 2020 with the Court seeking to withdraw his application because he wanted to go back to attend his sick family and his problems had been solved.
8. It is clear that the applicant has no intention of proceeding with his application. As such, his application should be dismissed.
9. Accordingly, I accede to the applicant’s request and dismiss his application.
Dated the 17th day of July 2020
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(Mike Mak) |
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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 the Applicant’s solicitors must: |
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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)). |
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Sent to the Applicant
on 17/7/2020
Sala
Applicant’s ref. no:
Nil. |
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Sent to the Putative Respondent / the Putative Respondent’s solicitors / such Putative Interested Parties as may be directed by the Court / the Putative Interested Parties’ solicitors on 17/7/2020
Torture Claims Appeal Board/
Non-refoulement Claims Petition Office
Putative Respondent’s ref. no.:
USM 14215/18/11/58/B1653
Director of Immigration
(Putative Interested Party)
Department of Justice,
Senior Assistant Law Office
(Civil Law)
(Civil Litigation Unit 2) |
Form CALL-1
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