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Partnership accounts and accounting for profits
  • 31 Aug 2011

    IP MAN SUN AND ANOTHER v. HUI CHEONG AND ANOTHER

    Citation
    IP MAN SUN AND ANOTHER v. HUI CHEONG AND ANOTHER
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCA2370/2002

    The court found that the parties' repeated and organized joint purchases, shared decision-making and customary 1/3:2/3 sharing established a partnership; Ip's contemporaneous records were sufficiently reliable to support most claims; defendants failed to prove complete prior settlement of accounts or accuracy of their counterclaims, so plaintiffs were entitled to judgment for the Net Sum to be calculated by the parties with specified adjustments (disallowances and awards), interest and costs orders; limited parts of the counterclaim were allowed (HK$100,000 for cutting expenses) and an admitt…