High Court judge’s refusal to stall injunction gives green light for Admiralty clearance
Police poised to move in as early as Wednesday as Leung Chun-ying hints at an all-out clearance
The way has been cleared for the Occupy Central movement's biggest sit-in, in Admiralty, to return to normality after a High Court judge turned down a protester's request to appeal against an injunction order mandating a site clearance.
No timetable has been set yet on the removal action, pending legal requirements that the injunction applicant, bus operator All China Express, must fulfil.
"I hope to see the injunction executed in an orderly manner with as little chaos as possible," Mr Justice Thomas Au Hing-cheung said at an earlier hearing.
A police source said the force would help bailiffs enforce the court order in Admiralty on Wednesday at the earliest.
"Police will clear barricades and arrest and remove those who refuse to leave. We then clear the Causeway Bay occupation," for which an injunction was not needed, he said.
After that, he said, officers would be stationed at both places to prevent reoccupation bids.