3 Dec 2021
CHINACHEM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LTD v. WILKINSON & GRIST (a firm)
- Citation
- [2021] HKCFI 3639
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP882/2020
The court held that the engagement letters expressly provided for interim fee notes to be rendered periodically and a final fee note when the matter was completed; therefore the interim fee notes were not to be treated as periodic final bills and the natural breaks doctrine does not apply where the retainer provides for interim billing. Consequently, the limitation for taxation generally begins to run from delivery of the final fee note for the relevant matter. Applying those principles, most of Wilkinson & Grist's fee notes were ordered to be taxed except specified fee notes that were final…