Hong Kong Ordinances

HIGH COURT ORDINANCE - SECT 23

Restriction on repeated applications for habeas corpus

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 25 of 1998 s. 2

(1) Notwithstanding anything in any law or rule of court, where an application
for habeas corpus has been made by or in respect of any person, no such
application shall again be made to the Court of First  Instance or any judge
thereof by or in respect of that person on the same grounds, unless fresh
evidence is adduced in support of the application. (Amended 95 of 1997 s. 4;
25 of 1998 s. 2)

(2) (Repealed 95 of 1997 s. 4) [cf. 1960 c. 65 s. 14 U.K.]