Hong Kong Case Law: Decisions & Judgments | LexChat

Topic

Torture and ill-treatment (part viic)

Legal area

Court

30 Mar 2026

FIDAH HIDAYATUS SOLEKHAH v. TORTURE CLAIMS APPEAL BOARD [Decision on Leave Application]

Citation

[2026] HKCFI 1857
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCAL1582/2023

The leave application was dismissed because the Applicant failed to present reasonably arguable, particularized grounds of legal error or procedural unfairness; the Director and the Board properly assessed credibility, risk, state protection and internal relocation and applied the law correctly, and the court will not rehear factual assessments absent identifiable legal error.
30 Dec 2020

CHAUHAN RAM PRAVESH v. TORTURE CLAIMS APPEAL BOARD [Decision on Leave Application]

Citation

[2020] HKCFI 2659
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCAL865/2018

The leave application was dismissed and time to apply was not extended because the applicant was over eight months late without credible explanation, the intended challenge lacked any reasonably arguable legal ground or identified error of law or procedural unfairness in the Director’s or Board’s decisions (which had properly assessed credibility and internal relocation), and judicial review cannot be used to re-evaluate primary factual findings in the absence of legal error.