1 Aug 2016
SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE v. LOU TIT MAN
- Citation
- SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE v. LOU TIT MAN
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV130/2016
The Court concluded that committal proceedings brought by motion under Order 52, though prosecuting criminal contempt, are civil in procedural character and therefore the appeals are civil causes or matters; section 50 applies to interlocutory orders in such committal proceedings but does not displace the leave requirement in section 14AA for interlocutory appeals (subject to the specific exemptions in Order 59 Rule 21 for committal orders and their discharge/variation); consequently leave is required for the interlocutory appeals in issue and a rolled-up hearing of leave and substantive appe…