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Hong Kong Case Law

Defined access

  • 10 Oct 2014

    JJBGMK v. JPLY

    Citation
    JJBGMK v. JPLY
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMP61/2011

    The court held that the Father's one-off HK$160,000 payment should be given limited credit (approximately HK$27,000) against backdated maintenance but no further set-off/order was necessary; the Mother's application for leave to appeal the costs order was refused for lack of reasonable prospect of success; none of the four summons resolved by undertakings warranted an adverse costs order against the Father and therefore no order as to costs was made for those summons; the Mother was ordered to pay the Father's costs of her leave application (to be taxed if not agreed) with a certificate for c…

  • 19 Mar 2012

    MAO v. NCB

    Citation
    MAO v. NCB
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC14742/2010

    Given the high level of conflict, credible evidence of the fathers aggressive and bullying conduct, concerns about his mental health and unstable living/working status, the mothers credible evidence and the social welfare officers recommendation, the childs welfare is best served by granting sole custody and care and control to the mother with defined access to the father.

  • 8 Dec 1997

    KWAN PO YEE v. WONG HO MING KENNETH

    Citation
    KWAN PO YEE v. WONG HO MING KENNETH
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMP1518/1996

    The court held that the HK$21,000 monthly payment was ordered 'as and for maintenance for the said child' (including an HK$8,000 component for the mother's remuneration for childcare) and therefore constituted the child's money which cannot be set off against alleged losses of the mother; the defined access order remains unchanged; and in the exercise of the wide family-law discretion on costs, the Applicant is entitled to costs for the adjourned hearing, the resumed hearing and the costs of the November hearing because no Calderbank offer was placed before the court and no binding settlement…