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Hong Kong Case Law

Appellate standard for factual findings
  • 3 Sept 2021

    WJT v. YATM

    Citation
    [2021] HKCA 1267
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CAMP226/2020

    Leave to appeal was refused because the proposed grounds were challenges to the trial judge’s factual findings and evaluation of evidence without any showing of legal error or that the findings were plainly wrong, and therefore the intended appeal had no reasonable prospect of success under the statutory test for leave to appeal.