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Hong Kong Case Law

Deposit interest rates
  • 23 Nov 2006

    MIMI MONICA WONG v. MIRKO SACCANI AND ANOTHER

    Citation
    MIMI MONICA WONG v. MIRKO SACCANI AND ANOTHER
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCA2061/2004

    In the absence of evidence that the plaintiff had to borrow to replace the sums and given that the funds were paid into court by agreement and earned deposit rates, the correct measure in the particular circumstances was loss of return on the money (actual interest received on the monies in court) rather than the cost of borrowing; accordingly the earlier order for interest at prime plus 1% was set aside and the plaintiff awarded the actual interest sums accrued on the monies paid into court and thereafter interest at the judgment rate until payment.