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Adjournment for incapacity
  • 31 Mar 2026

    NPYJ v. SMRC

    Citation
    [2026] HKCA 572
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CAMP98/2024

    Leave to appeal refused because the court below’s case management and committal decisions had no reasonable prospect of being overturned: the judge had considered but permissibly rejected the medical evidence and reasonably concluded adjournment would be an abuse/delay; the finding that H breached the 8/11/22 order was supported by undisputed chronology and belated compliance; indemnity costs were within judicial discretion given the late purging of contempt; WhatsApp material was rightly expunged as confidential and irrelevant; and the newly pleaded bias ground was speculative and inadmissib…