26 Jan 2022
TSE HENRY EDWARD v. COMMISSIONER OF REGISTRATION
- Citation
- [2022] HKCA 172
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV184/2019
The Court held the Policy is lawful: in the statutory registration context the Policy pursues a legitimate aim and full SRS is a rational, objective, irreversible and proportionate criterion (satisfying the no-more-than-necessary scrutiny) to ensure correctness of identity card particulars; the Policy strikes a reasonable balance between public interests and applicants' privacy rights under BOR 14; BOR 3 is not engaged because the Policy does not inflict treatment reaching the high severity threshold nor vitiate voluntary informed consent; and the indirect discrimination claim under SDO s5(1)…