18 Sept 2020
MONAT INVESTMENT LTD v. ALL PERSON(S) IN OCCUPATION OF Part of The Remaining Portion of Lot No 591 in Mui Wo DD 4 No 16 Ma Po Tsuen, Mui Wo, Lantau Island AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- [2020] HKCFI 2447
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP1894/2015
Applying an issue-based approach and the rules on costs discretion, the judge allocated percentages of overall costs to specific issues (20% illegality, 20% expert, 60% factual adverse possession) then discounted for the 2nd Defendant's deliberate false pleas. The 2nd Defendant was awarded limited costs (10% for proving adverse possession of the brick house and semi-circular paved area; 20% for expert; 20% for illegality issue) but those awards were offset by the Plaintiff's wasted costs in disproving the 2nd Defendant's three lies, resulting in no order as to costs; the costs order nisi was…