12 Jul 2023
Leave to appeal to the Court of Final Appeal was refused because the applicant failed to identify any specific or arguable error in the judgment and therefore did not meet the statutory threshold in s22(1)(b).
31 Dec 2021
The court accepted the Registrar's practice and ordered that the notice of motion be determined on paper and proceeded to consider the application against the statutory threshold in s22(1)(b) of the Court of Final Appeal Ordinance (Cap 484) in deciding the application for leave to appeal to the CFA.
31 Dec 2021
The court agreed with the Registrar that the notice of motion should be determined on paper and applied the statutory threshold in s22(1)(b) of the Court of Final Appeal Ordinance when assessing the leave application; the procedural decision to dispose on paper was appropriate in the circumstances.
29 Dec 2021
The notice of motion for leave to appeal to the Court of Final Appeal was dismissed because the applicant failed to raise any question of great general or public importance as required by s22(1)(b) Cap.484, failed to engage the reasons given in the impugned judgment, and the application was out of time so leave to file and to appeal was refused.