3 Dec 2021
CHINACHEM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LTD v. WILKINSON & GRIST (a firm)
- Citation
- [2021] HKCFI 3639
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP879/2020
The engagement letters expressly provided for interim fee notes to be rendered periodically and a final fee note on completion; on construction the interim fee notes were not periodic final bills and the natural breaks doctrine did not apply where the retainer authorized interim billing; therefore, for the bills governed by those engagement letters the limitation for taxation ran from delivery of the final bills (and many earlier bills were paid more than 12 months before the applications so could not be taxed).