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Hong Kong Case Law

Disposition of unclaimed assets
  • 20 Dec 2021

    RE WING FAT SECURITIES LTD

    Citation
    [2021] HKCFI 3851
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMP1036/2021

    The court declared the unclaimed assets to be held on trust for the named clients, found the applicant had taken all reasonable steps to return assets, granted leave to pay specified unclaimed cash and feasible securities into court under section 62, and granted leave under section 56 to sell or otherwise dispose of specified unclaimed securities and entitlements which could not feasibly be lodged into court; the court refused to grant s56 relief or a declaration in respect of abandoned securities because clients had expressly authorised the applicant to dispose of those securities, so s56 wa…