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Hong Kong Case Law

Hague convention article 26

  • 22 Dec 2023

    NI v. TCHK

    Citation
    [2023] HKFC 253
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC549/2020

    Although the judge had concerns about aspects of Father's conduct (omission of residential address in affirmation, production of an unsigned offer to lease, and videotaped evidence of the child), the evidence was insufficient to establish fabrication or material non-disclosure or to conclude that Father's conduct crossed the threshold of reprehensible or unreasonable conduct required to depart from the general practice; Mother did not commit material non-disclosure at the ex parte stage; accordingly no order as to costs was made (including costs of the ex parte hearing), and the ex parte cost…

  • 16 Oct 2019

    LCH v. JMC

    Citation
    [2019] HKCFI 2521
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMP678/2019

    No order as to costs was made for the Stay Application and the Return Application because both were interlocutory child‑related summary proceedings where the usual practice of no order as to costs applies; there was insufficient evidence that the Mother acted reprehensibly or unreasonably or that the child's welfare would be put at risk if no costs order were made; therefore discretion under Order 62 and relevant authorities was exercised to decline a costs order.