12 Jun 2001
YAU CHIU WAH v. GOLD CHIEF INVESTMENT LTD. AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- YAU CHIU WAH v. GOLD CHIEF INVESTMENT LTD. AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA807/2001
The original ex parte Mareva injunction was set aside for material non-disclosure but, on balance, a fresh Mareva injunction was granted; the 1st defendant's HSBC current account should be specifically named; the 1st defendant is permitted to spend up to $1,000,000 on legal costs; the plaintiff must pay the costs of and occasioned by the two summonses including the hearings on 23 February and 20 April 2001 (but not the 19 February 2001 hearing) because the plaintiff obtained an indulgence despite innocent material non-disclosure; no enhanced scale of costs awarded given the innocence of the o…