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Order 22 payments
  • 10 Dec 2024

    CHEUNG KI LAM 對 CHOI TAK TAI 及另一人

    Citation
    [2024] HKDC 2078
    Court
    District Court
    Case number
    DCPI2504/2019

    The court found the Order 22 payments (HK$1 on 29/10/2020 and HK$49,999 on 11/2/2022) were validly filed and served; the plaintiff did not accept them within the prescribed periods and failed to obtain a better result against the second defendant. It was not unjust to apply Rule 23, therefore the interim costs order was varied: plaintiff to pay second defendant party-and-party costs to 25 November 2020 and indemnity costs from 26 November 2020 (including wasted trial dates), and to pay interest on the indemnity costs at a rate 2% above the judgment rate; the court refused to order indemnity c…