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Hong Kong Case Law

Assignment of cases
  • 2 Dec 2020

    HKSAR v. TAM TAK CHI

    Citation
    [2020] HKDC 1153
    Court
    District Court
    Case number
    DCCC928/2020

    To avoid potential ultra vires consequences and collateral judicial review challenges and because assignment and listing are administrative functions of the Judiciary, the listing judge must list the substantive jurisdictional argument before a designated judge; the decision does not decide the applicability of the National Security Law and leaves the substantive construction to the designated judge.