20 Apr 2011
CHAN GORDON v. LEE WAI HING AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- CHAN GORDON v. LEE WAI HING AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP1596/2008
The court awarded the daughter full costs to be met from the father’s estate but limited resort to the estate's cash (bank savings), holding the disputed property excluded from the estate for costs purposes; the administrator was not entitled to indemnity out of the estate because he failed to obtain Beddoe-type authorization, adopted an inappropriate Order 113 procedure, acted unreasonably and placed his firm in conflict, and therefore his costs should not be borne by the estate; the court retained that, as a principle, costs of administration (and any administrator costs properly allowed) r…