20 Jan 2016
FOK CHUN YUE BENJAMIN v. FOK CHUN WAN IAN AND OTHERS
- Citation
- FOK CHUN YUE BENJAMIN v. FOK CHUN WAN IAN AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV17/2014
The Court applied the general rule that costs follow the event but exercised its discretion to apportion costs between hostile first-family litigants: Ian and Tim were ordered to pay jointly and severally the party-and-party taxed costs of Ben, Nora and Pat for the appeal (certificates for two counsel), and to pay jointly and severally indemnity taxed costs for the Mother and the 2nd and 3rd family siblings in the appeal; Poon J's costs order against Ben and Nora below was set aside and the four main protagonists (Ben, Nora, Ian and Tim) were ordered to bear their own costs below, while Ian,…