15 Apr 1988
WO FUNG PAPER MAKING FACTORY LTD v. SAPPI KRAFT (PTY) LTD
- Citation
- WO FUNG PAPER MAKING FACTORY LTD v. SAPPI KRAFT (PTY) LTD
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV4/1988
Order 12 r.8(2) bars extension of the 14‑day period for disputing jurisdiction; because Sappi did not make a timely application under Order 12 r.8(1) its acknowledgment of service operated as a submission to the Court's jurisdiction under r.8(7); the Court therefore could not, by inherent jurisdiction or Order 32 r.6, set aside the ex parte leave outside the prescribed procedure and time. On the merits (and even if the application had been in time) the plaintiff had shown a good arguable case and Hong Kong was the appropriate forum; the Judge's discharge of the Master's order for material non…