8 Jul 2025
PAN HAIFEI v. TAI KAREN KAI LUN
- Citation
- [2025] HKCFI 2963
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA1017/2021
Although the court was sceptical about the genuineness of the defendant's illness and critical of her travel shortly before trial and late instruction of counsel, the court exercised its discretion to allow a short adjournment to 4 August 2025 on the explicit condition that the defendant pay all costs occasioned by the two adjournments upfront on an indemnity basis (summarily assessed at HK$250,000 plus an outstanding assessed amount of HK$18,000) by 22 July 2025, and that failure to comply would bar the defendant from relying on and advancing her defence and counterclaim and allow the plaint…