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Order 22 rule 24 rdc

  • 27 Apr 2022

    TSANG HIN YI HUBERT v. CHEUNG LAI PING

    Citation
    [2022] HKDC 366
    Court
    District Court
    Case number
    DCMP3110/2018

    The court found the Judgment to be more advantageous to the plaintiff than the sanctioned offer, rejected the defendant's arguments that the offer was tactical or that it would be unjust to apply rule 24 given the timing and information available, and therefore varied the costs order nisi to award indemnity costs from 21 February 2019, interest at 4.5% per annum on those costs to the date of judgment, and indemnity taxation for the costs of this application.

  • 11 Aug 2021

    HU WAN v. SANWO INTERNATIONAL CO LTD

    Citation
    [2021] HKDC 948
    Court
    District Court
    Case number
    DCPI3621/2019

    Order 22 r24 was engaged because the judgment exceeded the plaintiff's sanctioned offers; on the facts the defendant's conduct (delays in serving witness statements, extensive discovery and failure to engage meaningfully with offers) made it not unjust to award enhanced interest and indemnity costs; the court awarded enhanced interest at 2% above judgment rate from 3 June 2020 until judgment, indemnity costs from 3 June 2020, taxed High Court scale pre-transfer, refused enhanced interest on future loss, and ordered costs of the application on a party-and-party basis.