9 Sept 2010
CTT AND ANOTHER v. SLWE AND OTHERS
- Citation
- CTT AND ANOTHER v. SLWE AND OTHERS
- Court
- Family Court
- Case number
- FCMP228/2009
The court held the documents filed by the Paternal Members on 22 July 2010 were wrongly filed in the present proceedings and struck them off; however the substantive applications were not abusive or frivolous and did not justify a wasted costs order. The court awarded summary costs for the procedural irregularity on a party-and-party basis with a certificate for counsel in the amount of HK$15,000 (HK$10,000 counsel; HK$5,000 solicitors) to be paid jointly and severally by the Paternal Members within 14 days, directed proper joinder procedures and a social welfare report, and declined to make…