12 Mar 2002
KWAN CHUI KWOK YING AND ANOTHER v. TAO WAI CHUN AND OTHERS
- Citation
- KWAN CHUI KWOK YING AND ANOTHER v. TAO WAI CHUN AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP2996/1990
The order for issuance of the Letter of Request (14 May 1999) was void ab initio because at the time it was made Macau was under no international obligation nor did its local law provide for execution of letters of request for civil proceedings; the order was procured on the basis of an incorrect expert statement of foreign law constituting an abuse of process, and therefore the court had jurisdiction to set the order aside and did so.