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Topic

Employment ordinance s.21b(2)(b)

Legal area

Court

10 Dec 2008

JOHN SIMPSON WARHAM AND OTHERS v. CATHAY PACIFIC AIRWAYS LTD AND ANOTHER

Citation

JOHN SIMPSON WARHAM AND OTHERS v. CATHAY PACIFIC AIRWAYS LTD AND ANOTHER
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCA2822/2002

The court struck out the challenged passages because they were irrelevant to the limited factual issues to be tried and comprised inadmissible material (opinion, legal conclusions, hearsay, unpermitted expert evidence and submissions) that would provoke collateral inquiries and waste trial time; accordingly the strike out summonses succeeded and specified paragraphs were deleted.
1 Apr 2003

JOHN SIMPSON WARHAM AND OTHERS v. CATHAY PACIFIC AIRWAYS LTD AND ANOTHER

Citation

JOHN SIMPSON WARHAM AND OTHERS v. CATHAY PACIFIC AIRWAYS LTD AND ANOTHER
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCA2822/2002

The court held that vague positive allegations in paragraph 7 of the defence required specific particulars to be provided so each plaintiff could prepare and avoid surprise; accordingly, the plaintiffs' application for particulars was granted in respect of requests that sought particulars of positive allegations (requests 1,3,4,5(ii),6) and denied where only denials or non‑admissions were sought (requests 2 and 7); paragraph 16 of the defence was ordered deleted and amended particulars provided as agreed.