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Hong Kong Case Law

Mutuality/set-off
  • 6 Dec 2006

    YEUNG CHUNG HAY v. INTERNATIONAL PAINT LLC

    Citation
    YEUNG CHUNG HAY v. INTERNATIONAL PAINT LLC
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACV115/2006

    The Court held there was no genuine and serious cross-claim by the appellants sufficient to set aside the statutory demands: the parties had conducted business under the 1994 Distributor Agreement, no term to pay the asserted BFE commissions could be implied, delay in asserting the cross-claim undermined its credibility, and issues of mutuality/assignment did not need to be resolved because the cross-claim failed on its merits; therefore the refusal to set aside the statutory demands was upheld and the appeal dismissed.