12 Nov 1999
NGAN WUN YEUNG v. THE LOK SIN TONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY KOWLOON AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- NGAN WUN YEUNG v. THE LOK SIN TONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY KOWLOON AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCPI536/1997
The Master dismissed the review and affirmed a reasonableness approach under the common fund basis: disallowed counsel's fee for drafting the police letter (item 373) and a separate fee for viewing videos (item 383) as not reasonably incurred or subsumed into other advice; reduced the brief fee (item 663) from HK$100,000 to HK$80,000 and each refresher (items 666, 668, 670) from HK$40,000 to HK$25,000; ordered the costs of the review to be paid by the assigned solicitors Messrs. Munro Claypole & Reeves (order nisi), with no costs against the Director or the infant Plaintiff.