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Hong Kong Case Law

Fee earner hourly rates
  • 19 Jan 2000

    AU MIU LING v. WONG DING YICK

    Citation
    AU MIU LING v. WONG DING YICK
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC6671/1996

    The Master reviewed each contested item and varied the taxation where the firm adduced specific, credible evidence that the work or disbursement was proper and necessary or that the original allowance was insufficient. Key determinations: uplift hourly rate for the two senior fee earners to HK$2,600; allow costs of the litigation clerk's PRC trip as proper and necessary given inadequate addresses and the China attorney's request and the trip's fruitfulness; increase allowances for specific drafting items (D17 to 2 hrs, D20 allowed in full, D22 allowed as 6 hrs for trainee at HK$650/hr plus 45…