16 Dec 2024
MOORTHY SELVARAJ (as one of the beneficiaries of the estate of KARUPAYA SELVARAJ, Deceased) v. KARUPAYEE AMMAL (as the administratrix and one of the beneficiaries of the estate of KARUPAYASELVARAJ, Deceased) AND OTHERS
- Citation
- [2024] HKCFI 3628
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA413/2016
The plaintiff contributed to delays in the administration and pursued two principal objectives (enforcing the DFA and taking over administration) on which he failed; he was an unconvincing witness and there was no basis to assume he would have succeeded had the 1st defendant not died. Consequently the plaintiff must pay the 1st, 2nd and 5th defendants' costs incurred in the action (with the existing certificate for two counsel preserved for the 5th defendant's costs but not extended to the 1st defendant), and the plaintiff's summons to vary the costs order is dismissed with the plaintiff orde…