TSE HENRY EDWARD v. COMMISSIONER OF REGISTRATION

[2024] HKCFI 836

Court of First Instance18 March 2024

Judges:Coleman

HCAL474/2024 TSE HENRY EDWARD v. COMMISSIONER OF REGISTRATION

HCAL 474/2024

[2024] HKCFI 836

IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

CONSTITUTIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW LIST No. 474 of 2024

BETWEEN
	TSE HENRY EDWARD	Applicant
	and
	COMMISSIONER OF REGISTRATION	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 18^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 18/3/2024 Messrs. Patricia Ho & Associates Solicitors for the Applicant Ref.: PH540-23		Sent/Handed to the Respondent/the Respondent’s solicitors / such interested parties as may be directed by the Court / the interested parties’ solicitors on 18/3/2024 COMMISSIONER OF REGISTRATION The Putative Respondent c/o Senior Assistant Law Officer (Civil Law) (Civil Litigation Unit) 2 Department of Justice 6^th Floor, Main and East Wing, Justice Place 18 Lower Albert Road, Central, Hong Kong

TSE HENRY EDWARD v. COMMISSIONER OF REGISTRATION

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