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Hong Kong Case Law

Joint expert evidence

  • 29 Aug 2022

    深圳正高金屬製品有限公司 v. IU HO CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING CO LTD

    Citation
    [2022] HKCFI 2685
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCCT33/2019

    Leave to discontinue was granted and the defendant ordered to pay the plaintiff's costs because the plaintiff satisfied the threshold 'good reason' and further demonstrated exceptional circumstances justifying departure from the general rule: the defendant had effectively abandoned participation, the joint liability expert supported the plaintiff such that plaintiff would likely succeed at trial, and any judgment would likely be unenforceable (an empty judgment), making discontinuance with an award of costs to the plaintiff fair and just; consequently the $600,000 security for costs paid into…

  • 21 Mar 2013

    NG WING MAN v. EVERBEST PORT SERVICES LTD

    Citation
    NG WING MAN v. EVERBEST PORT SERVICES LTD
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCPI780/2012

    The appeal was allowed in part because, given the plaintiff's severe injuries and that the case cannot meaningfully progress to trial or assessment of damages without rehabilitation/occupational therapy evidence, leave should be granted now for a joint occupational therapist and rehabilitation consultant examination and report on the plaintiff's current and future needs (including accommodation). Leave for physiotherapy, speech therapy and cardiology was refused at this stage because it was not shown that such leave ought to be granted now rather than at the adjourned checklist hearing; appel…