The Court of Appeal granted an extension of time to file the summons seeking leave to appeal but refused leave to appeal from District Court decisions dismissing claims for trespass to goods, assault, false imprisonment and other torts arising from police towing of a vehicle and attendance at the applicant's property, where the primary judge had awarded only $1 nominal damages for a conceded short trespass to land, because no proposed ground raised a question of principle or public importance or disclosed an injustice beyond what was merely arguable.
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