30 Aug 2005
TSUI KOON WAH v. LAM KING YUEN AND OTHERS
- Citation
- TSUI KOON WAH v. LAM KING YUEN AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA890/2003
The judge must not be presumed biased by case-management remarks about prolix pleadings; those remarks were legitimate and did not meet the Deacons test for apparent bias. The application to re-amend was refused because the proposed paragraphs were substantially the same as material previously disallowed by the Court of Appeal and would further exacerbate prolix and improper pleadings; the court must control pleadings to ensure just and efficient jury trials and may refuse amendments that merely lengthen pleadings without proper particularity.