29 May 2023
LING MAN YIU RAYMOND t/a BUILD TECH ENGINEERING CO v. YAU LUEN METAL WORKS LTD
- Citation
- [2023] HKDC 735
- Court
- District Court
- Case number
- DCCJ4198/2019
Leave to amend was granted in part and refused in part: ambiguous admission in §4 may be withdrawn and amendment allowed; only the first sentence of §8(2) (that the oral agreement pleaded is vague and lacking particulars) allowed and the remainder disallowed for lack of particulars; time-related allegations (§§9A,13,17) disallowed as insufficiently particular and prejudicial given trial imminence; sentence in §12 and §15A disallowed as embarrassing; interpretation aspect of §22 allowed but the phrase that a document is "outdated" disallowed as opening the door to new evidence and embarrassing…