22 Mar 2018
POON CHI YAN v. JSI LOGISTICS (HONG KONG) LTD
- Citation
- [2018] HKDC 311
- Court
- District Court
- Case number
- DCEC1769/2012
The court declined to order costs against the aided person under s17 LAO because the applicant lacked means and such an order would be ineffectual and unfair to the respondent; instead the court found the assigned solicitor and counsel in serious dereliction of their duties to the court and to the Director of Legal Aid by failing to report material evidence and therefore disallowed recovery of their own taxed legal aid costs for specified post-notice periods (1st Accident: costs and disbursements after 20 December 2016; 2nd and 3rd Accidents: costs and disbursements on or after 16 September 2…