25 May 2012
BIG ISLAND CONSTRUCTION (HK) LTD v. WU YI DEVELOPMENT CO LTD AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- BIG ISLAND CONSTRUCTION (HK) LTD v. WU YI DEVELOPMENT CO LTD AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA1957/2005
The court exercised its discretion to vary costs: no order as to costs between parties in HCA1957/2005 due to serious misconduct and concealment by both sides; indemnity costs were awarded against BIC in HCA714/2007 because BIC invented a defence and conduct amounted to an affront to the court; indemnity costs were refused in HCA886/2007; the application to make Mr Lee personally liable was refused for procedural (failure to join) and substantive reasons (need to investigate control, funding and interest); set-off of costs across unrelated actions was refused; Mr Lee's application in HCA1364/…