PURBO PILLANINGSIH
[2019] HKCFI 277
HCAL 224/2018
IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE
HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
CONSTITUTIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW LIST NO 224 OF 2018
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D E C I S I O N
1. On 21 November 2018 Deputy High Court Judge Lam refused to extend time to the applicant’s late application to apply for judicial review of the decisions of the Director of Immigration (“the Director”) and the Torture Claims Appeal Board (“the Board”) in rejecting/dismissing her non-refoulement claim upon finding that she had no good reason for her delay of three months with her application, that none of the grounds put forward by her as reasonably arguable, and that there was no prospect of success in her intended application.
2. The applicant now by a summons issued on 27 November 2018 seeks leave to appeal against that decision.
3. In considering whether to grant leave to appeal, the Court will have regard to the prospect of the intended appeal, but neither in her summons or her supporting affirmation did the applicant provide any draft or proposed ground for her appeal, or any particulars as to any error in that decision or why it was unfair or unreasonable, other than merely repeating her argument as before that the decisions of the Director and the Board were unfair. As such I am unable to see any prospect of success in her intended appeal.
4. In the premises it would be futile to grant leave for what seems clear to me a hopeless appeal. I therefore refuse her application for leave to appeal and dismiss her summons accordingly.
The applicant acted in person