27 Apr 2005
RE MA WAI LAM
- Citation
- RE MA WAI LAM
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP761/2005
The court conditionally granted the application to amend the roll on the basis (for present purposes) that the court may exercise power to effect the amendment, but expressly reserved the substantive jurisdictional question for consideration before the Chief Judge; the grant was made on the express condition that the applicant publish notice of the name change in three prominent Hong Kong newspapers on two separate days in a form satisfactory to the Registrar, and that future similar applications be brought by notice of motion before the Chief Judge with the Law Society and Department of Just…