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habeas corpus and the position in relation to judicial review
is that in the case of judicial review leave is required
before you can make the application whereas that is not
practical or possible in the case of habeas corpus. The only
effect of Mr. Nicholls' proposal would be to inject into
habeas corpus a two-stage procedure.
In my judgment, there would be a considerable risk if
Mr. Nicholls' suggestion was adopted that it would lead not to
expedition but to delay. That being so, I propose to make no
direction of the sort which is the subject of the
cross-application.
What I do propose to do is to direct that
if any further application is made it should be reserved to
myself and Pill J., If he is available and that it should be
heard with very great expedition with the court sitting, if
this is necessary, at 9 o'clock in the morning prior to its
normal business. I would anticipate it should be possible
for any such application to be heard within a period of seven
days.
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There is one further matter to which I should make
reference and that is the fact that one application was not
served on the Hong Kong Government. Mr. Scrivener explained
why that happened in perfectly acceptable terms.
He,
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however, was prepared to give an undertaking which the court
is happy to accept on behalf of his client, Mr. Osman, that in
the case of any further application simultaneous notice would
be given to the Hong Kong Government. There should be
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