11 Aug 2015
莫偉翔 v. 香港神托會 AND OTHERS
- Citation
- 莫偉翔 v. 香港神托會 AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA2597/2005
The appeal was dismissed because (1) the plaintiff's prolonged and inexcusable delay amounted to abuse of process (warehousing the claims) justifying striking out; (2) the claim against the sponsoring Society disclosed no reasonable cause of action (no pleaded basis for vicarious liability or control); (3) the School and Teachers' communications were plainly protected by qualified privilege absent pleaded and evidenced actual malice; and (4) the consolidated statement of claim was scandalous, prolix and beyond reasonable salvage; accordingly the statement of claim was struck out and the actio…