30 Jun 1977
LEUNG CHOW PUBLIC CAR CO (A FIRM) v. ATTORNEY GENERAL
- Citation
- LEUNG CHOW PUBLIC CAR CO (A FIRM) v. ATTORNEY GENERAL
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP749/1976
The Commissioner was not entitled to pre-emptively refuse to entertain the applicant's clean applications by giving priority to informal departmental commitments or "committed vacancies"; the regulations are addressed to the public generally and, subject to the statutory limit and legitimate statutory grounds for refusal, a properly made application must be entertained and assessed without being postponed to private assurances. The court granted declarations that four applications should be entertained (or alternatively placed in the lot under reg 18B(3)).