21 Jan 2022
LAW YIN POK BOSCO, a minor by LAM PO YEE, his mother and next friend v. DR. CHAN YEE SHING also known as DR. CHAN YEE SHING ALVIN
- Citation
- [2022] HKCFI 345
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP2256/2012
Because the defendant pursued taxation against the parents despite the Director's clear offer to meet costs and repeated pragmatic Waiver Proposals from the parents, and because the defendant continued to press the Summons without proper sense of proportion in the face of an available route to recover the costs, the defendant's conduct was sufficiently unreasonable and oppressive to justify indemnity costs: the defendant must pay the parents’ costs of the appeal on an indemnity basis and the parents’ costs of the Summons on an indemnity basis for costs incurred after 6 October 2020 (with earl…