28 Oct 2016
WONG BIK FAI v. DRAGAGES HONG KONG LTD AND OTHERS
- Citation
- WONG BIK FAI v. DRAGAGES HONG KONG LTD AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCPI564/2015
The court exercised its discretion to lift the statutory legal aid stay because dealing with the defendant's summons immediately would not prejudice the plaintiff and would avoid unnecessary costs; applying Order 22 r 23, the plaintiff failed to obtain a judgment better than the sanctioned payment of $450,000 (the difference being significant), and there were no grounds shown that it would be unjust to make the costs orders permitted by the rule, therefore the costs order nisi was varied to allocate party and indemnity costs and permit interest on indemnity costs at 4.5% from 5 August 2016, w…