8 Mar 2016
RE WONG KWAI LEUNG
- Citation
- RE WONG KWAI LEUNG
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCAL138/2015
The application for leave was dismissed because the challenged decisions were private law decisions by the Government as landowner concerning termination of a licence for occupation of unleased land and therefore not amenable to public law judicial review; the Court of Appeal decision in Chau Tam Yuet Ching is binding and decisive; additionally the challenge to the first decision was time‑barred.
- Revocation of government land licence
- Squatter control
- Legitimate expectation
- Jurisdictional amenability to judicial review
- Procedural time limit
- Costs