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Hong Kong Case Law

Formation and enforcement of settlement agreements
  • 15 Dec 2022

    MORTEN LOK v. MSB INTERNATIONAL LTD AND OTHERS

    Citation
    [2022] HKCFI 3751
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCCW386/2021

    On an objective construction of the correspondence and conduct up to and including 22 March 2022 the parties manifested an intention to be mutually bound on the stated terms; any alleged oral condition that execution of a formal deed and third-party releases was a precondition was not evidenced in the contemporaneous correspondence, was not included in the draft settlement, and was waived by conduct. The terms agreed were sufficiently certain (parties, scope limited to the ongoing actions, costs dealt with) and enforceable; accordingly a stay of the substantive proceedings is justified pendin…