Practice Directions

PRACTICE DIRECTION – 26.1

THE CONSTITUTIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW LIST

　

1.      The Administrative Law List will henceforth be known as the Constitutional and Administrative Law List.

2.      The following classes of cases shall be assigned to the Constitutional and Administrative Law List (“the List”):

(a)  applications for judicial review;

(b)  applications for habeas corpus;

(c)  election petitions;

(d)  appeals from decisions of the Obscene Articles Tribunal; and

(e)   such other civil cases which raise an issue under the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region or the Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance (Cap.383) for determination and which a judge of the Court of First Instance or a judge of the District Court certifies as suitable for transfer to the List.

       Every case assigned or transferred to the List shall be marked with a number beginning HCAL, e.g.
       HCAL 123 of 1998.

3.     All cases assigned or transferred to the List, including all interlocutory applications in such cases, shall, where practicable, be heard by judges nominated by the Chief Justice to hear cases assigned or transferred to the List.

4.     This Practice Direction shall take effect on 1 September 1998.