Applicant claim: The NPC Standing Committee excluded the applicants from the effects of its reinterpretation of the Basic Law.
Mr Justice Frank Stock: Exclusion only applies to people directly involved in the cases ruled on by the Court of Final Appeal in January last year.
Applicant claim: We should be able to rely on rights established in the Court of Final Appeal's rulings because the Basic Law says prior judgments should not be affected by an interpretation.
Mr Justice Stock: Again, this only applies to those actually concerned in the earlier cases.
Applicant claim: The Court of Final Appeal's rulings were in relation to test cases representing the interests of the applicants.
Mr Justice Stock: The test cases only represented specific claimants who had entered into agreements with the SAR.