17 Dec 2025
The decisive reasoning is that the applicant expressly and voluntarily withdrew the application for leave, leaving nothing outstanding; accordingly the court dismissed the application in accordance with established authority.
13 Feb 2025
The Board and Director lawfully and rationally concluded the Applicant's risk was low, threats were speculative, state protection and reasonable internal relocation were available, and there was no error of law, irrationality or procedural unfairness identified by the Applicant; therefore there was no prospect of success in judicial review and leave was refused.
19 Jan 2024
Leave to apply for judicial review was refused because the applicant failed to demonstrate any arguable error of law, procedural unfairness or irrationality in the Board's adverse credibility findings and therefore lacked a realistic prospect of success; the court will not re-evaluate facts within the Board's province.
20 Oct 2023
Leave to appeal was refused because the applicant failed to identify any mistake in the Court of Appeal's judgment or any question of great general or public importance under s22(1)(b) HKCFAO, and no basis was found under the "or otherwise" limb.
4 Apr 2019
Section 11 of the Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance, given constitutional force by Basic Law article 39 and read with Basic Law article 154(2), excludes reliance on BOR rights and by necessary implication limits cognate Basic Law rights in decisions concerning entry into, stay in or departure from Hong Kong of persons without the right to enter and remain; accordingly the Director was not legally obliged to take into account the asserted rights and the appeals were dismissed.
21 Jun 2017
Because the Adjudicator made permissible findings of fact including adverse credibility after considering relevant factors, and there was no reasonably arguable legal challenge to those findings or the refusal of protection, the court refused the extension of time and leave to judicially review.