24 Jan 2018
RE THE GRANDE HOLDINGS LTD
- Citation
- [2018] HKCFI 507
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCCW177/2011
The appeal was dismissed. The Court held that provisional liquidators, as fiduciaries seeking payment from beneficiaries or parties liable to pay, must justify their claims and may be required to produce contemporaneous documents and supporting material for effective inter partes taxation; the Procedural Guide is flexible and does not preclude production; given the very high level of fees and the adversarial inter partes taxation, the discovery order was proportionate and not oppressive.