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Directors' personal liability for costs
  • 6 Oct 2022

    RE CARNIVAL GROUP INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LTD

    Citation
    [2022] HKCFI 3097
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCCW48/2020

    The judge found that the 2nd to 5th respondents caused the Company to continue to oppose the Petition on an unjustified jurisdictional ground despite there being no realistic prospect of implementing a global restructuring (notably no approach to major immigration bondholders and clear barriers to onshore realisations), and that they failed to take the responsible course of full disclosure and seeking time; accordingly the 2nd to 5th respondents were ordered personally to pay the costs of and occasioned by the Company’s opposition at the 23 August 2022 hearing, while the 6th and 7th responden…