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  • 22 Aug 2024

    香港平民屋宇有限公司 對 關偉建

    Citation
    [2024] HKDC 1387
    Court
    District Court
    Case number
    DCCJ5509/2023

    The application by the plaintiff to restore and continue the stayed proceedings was refused because the district court must take a holistic approach to protect the substantive rights of all parties under Order 1A rule 2(2); the disputes raise widespread, arguable and overlapping private‑law and public‑law issues that risk duplication and unfairness if litigated piecemeal in the District Court; the plaintiff's proposals were premature and founded on mutable pleadings; therefore a stay/managed disposition (including possible consolidation, selection of test cases or allowing judicial review) be…

  • 1 Apr 1999

    WONG FONG TENG AND OTHERS v. THE DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION

    Citation
    WONG FONG TENG AND OTHERS v. THE DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCAL37/1999

    Leave to apply for judicial review of the substantive removal orders was adjourned sine die pending the Court of Appeal's determination of the Lau Kong Yung appeal; applicants were granted leave to amend to challenge the Director's decisions to put removal orders into effect (repatriate) and leave to apply for judicial review of the detention decisions (paras.1–3) on the basis that differential treatment with the test cases is arguable unreasonableness; the court stayed enforcement of removal orders (Director ordered not to repatriate) until the appeal is heard and directed the release of the…