23 Mar 2018
CHINA MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (in liquidation) v. KPMG (a firm)
- Citation
- [2018] HKCFI 655
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA2276/2016
The defendant seeking early service under Order 12 rule 8A bears the burden of proving that it would be unjust to allow the protective writs to run their natural expiry; that threshold is high and was not met because (1) service is not necessary to obtain letters of request, (2) the Mutual Arrangement is unlikely to produce the full scope of documents or meet the Liquidators’ investigatory purposes, (3) KPMG failed to show a good prospect of obtaining and enforcing letters of request, and (4) KPMG substantially caused delay by obstructing compliance with section 221 orders; accordingly the ap…