9 Aug 2004
LAM YUET MEI v. PERMANENT SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER OF THE EDUCATION AND MANPOWER BUREAU
- Citation
- LAM YUET MEI v. PERMANENT SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER OF THE EDUCATION AND MANPOWER BUREAU
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCAL36/2004
The court held that although the initial oral consultation before the July 2002 exclusion was inadequate, subsequent genuine opportunities to make representations cured the procedural defect and relief would be futile given later policy developments; the 27‑9‑02 letter constituted a clear and unambiguous representation that existing students could continue until graduation, but the applicant did not have knowledge of or rely on that letter so she could not establish the detrimental reliance necessary to enforce a personal substantive legitimate expectation, and thus the decision to cease gran…