26 Feb 2024
Leave to appeal was granted because the questions identified involve issues of great general or public importance concerning the effect of BL36 on allocation of public and subsidised housing and the respondents' grounds of appeal could not be said to be unarguable.
26 Feb 2024
The court granted the respondents leave to appeal to the Court of Final Appeal because the questions identified (relating to BL36's effect on spousal housing entitlements, comparator choice, need for empirical evidence and proportionality) are of great general or public importance and the grounds of appeal are not unarguable.
6 Sept 2019
The Court held the Benefits Decision and the Tax Decision unlawfully discriminated against the appellant on grounds of sexual orientation contrary to Article 25 of the Basic Law and Articles 1 and 22 of the Hong Kong Bill of Rights; it quashed both decisions by certiorari, granted declaratory relief including a remedial interpretation of the Inland Revenue Ordinance to recognise same‑sex marriages for tax purposes and to read related gendered terms as gender‑neutral, permitted the 2nd respondent six months to implement the remedial interpretation, and ordered costs to the appellant to be paid…