26 Feb 2025
LEELAN RUKESH MARASINGHE v. DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF CIVIL AVIATION
- Citation
- [2025] HKCFI 840
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCAL1457/2018
The court refused the applicant's Disclosure Application and dismissed the 3rd Party Disclosure and Oral Evidence Applications because the applicant failed to establish urgent necessity or jurisdictional basis to compel a non-party resident abroad to produce documents or give live evidence; the appropriate route to seek compelled evidence from a non-resident third party is by letter of request to the relevant foreign court under Order 39 rule 1, and judicial review proceedings ordinarily proceed on the papers so live evidence will only be ordered in exceptional cases where the evidence is dir…