29 Jun 2018
LLC v. LMWA AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- [2018] HKFC 100
- Court
- Family Court
- Case number
- FCMC4683/2014
Court exercised discretion on costs: husband (as spouse) had an obligation to engage in basic settlement negotiation and his silence to the Calderbank offer warranted consideration against him; the Father, as an outsider, had different obligations. Late disclosures gave the wife costs of those disclosure applications but did not justify full deprivation of defendants' costs. Weighing conduct, prejudice and the parties' financial positions, the court varied the costs order nisi to no order between husband and wife and apportioned costs against the wife as to 80% of the Father's costs.