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The court varied an earlier probate order to allow Cellmark Forensic Services to conduct post-mortem DNA testing, appointing a Hong Kong agent to collect samples and making costs orders.
法庭拒絕批准上訴許可申請，認為申請人未能證明上訴有合理成功機會，並維持將程序分為親子問題及遺囑效力兩部分的處理方式。
法院駁回被告就訟費擔保提出的上訴，認為原告在初步親子關係爭議上有很高勝訴機會，故現階段不應命其就整體程序提供擔保。
The Family Court held that an unregistered biological father could not obtain custody under the GMO without first securing a declaration of parentage under the PCO.
The District Court refused leave to appeal in a paternity DNA-testing case, holding that section 13 of the Parent and Child Ordinance had been properly applied.
The Court of First Instance held that joint DNA evidence rebutted the statutory presumption of parentage, so the infant claimant was not the deceased’s natural child.
The Court of First Instance accepted a joint DNA report and held the infant had not proved she was the deceased’s natural child for intestacy.
The Family Court ordered scientific tests in a paternity dispute, holding that the child’s interest in determining parentage outweighed the respondent’s privacy objections.
The court refused a split trial and preliminary issue application in estate-maintenance proceedings, holding that liability and quantum were too closely connected.
法院上訴庭批准就親子關係作出聲明，認定 respondent 為申請人的自然父親，並指明在缺乏 DNA 證據但整體證據足夠時仍可作出判令。
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