29 Oct 2010
CHAN WAI TUNG v. TANG KWOK KWONG AND OTHERS
- Citation
- CHAN WAI TUNG v. TANG KWOK KWONG AND OTHERS
- Court
- District Court
- Case number
- DCPI1503/2007
At the first stage the court found there was material upon which a Wasted Costs Order could potentially be made because the pleas against KW appeared to lack any factual basis and thereby misled the court; however at the second stage the court declined to make a Wasted Costs Order because the plaintiff refused to waive legal professional privilege and, given the penal nature of such orders and the requirement to give benefit of the doubt to legal advisers where privilege restricts disclosure, the judge was not satisfied it was fair to make the order; instead each party to the application was…