28 Aug 2024
CHUNG PUI TONG v. QIAN ZHEN
- Citation
- [2024] HKCA 814
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV68/2020
Given the plaintiff's success on the overarching and difficult estoppel issue and partial success overall, it was unjust to deprive him of all costs; the court exercised its discretion to reduce the plaintiff's appeal costs to 50% (from 60%), awarded the defendant summary costs of $20,000 for the variation application, and ordered separate apportioned costs for the action and counterclaim (defendant to pay plaintiff 50% of costs of the action; plaintiff to pay defendant 35% of costs of the counterclaim) rather than a single overall order because the outcome and issues did not clearly identify…