Hong Kong Case Law: Decisions & Judgments | LexChat

Hong Kong Case Law

Ancillary relief costs

  • 28 Apr 2026

    KWUN SAU KAM v. LI YAN LAM AND ANOTHER

    Citation
    [2026] HKDC 708
    Court
    District Court
    Case number
    DCMP2866/2025

    Because the Property is small and partition is impracticable, and a Charging Order Absolute subsists against D1's interest, the court exercised its statutory power under sections 2, 3 and 6 of the Partition Ordinance to order sale. The court directed sale by private treaty within 90 days or, failing that, public auction, with net proceeds first applied to outgoings and sale costs, then encumbrances, and the remaining net proceeds to be split equally; D1's half was to be applied first to discharge the Charging Order Absolute (HK$819,043.85) and Allocatur (HK$31,230) with any balance to D1, and…

  • 8 Dec 2015

    AB also known as ABW v. MAW

    Citation
    AB also known as ABW v. MAW
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC6310/2015

    The court held it would not impose an automatic rule that an interim lump sum for litigation funding must be deducted as of right from any final ancillary relief award; fairness requires case-specific treatment, and given the wife satisfied the Currey test and the husband was not required to account for his own legal costs, the court invited the husband to pay HK$3,000,000 without prejudice to positions at trial and, failing that, ordered HK$800,000 per month for four months to meet litigation funding needs up to the Financial Dispute Resolution hearing.