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Court of Appeal fixed the Law Society’s costs at HKD 800,000, allowed Mr Miller HKD 288,321 for the appeal, and ordered monthly instalments of HKD 4,000.
The court allowed the 2nd defendant’s appeal against a procedural dismissal of its discovery summons, holding that the request for pre-accident medical records should be heard substantively.
The High Court allowed a 2nd defendant’s appeal against a procedural refusal of specific discovery of the plaintiff’s pre-accident medical records, and ordered the application to be heard on the merits.
The Court refused the appellant's application for leave to appeal to the Court of Final Appeal under s22(1)(b) because the complaints were confined to case-management matters specific to the underlying proceedings and lacked wide public importance; the alleged breaches of Practice Direction 19.1 and service by email were either satisfied or did not cause demonstrable prejudice (skeleton argument qualified as written notice; "five working days" excludes weekends and Order 3 r2 does not apply to Practice Directions; email was an acceptable delivery method and the appellant had opportunity to re…
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Leave to appeal to the Court of Final Appeal was refused because the proposed appeal did not involve any issue of broad or public importance under s22(1)(b), had no real prospect of success, and the applicant failed to comply with Practice Direction 2.1 (no written submissions), so the application must be dismissed.
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The District Court adjourned the trial after finding serious defects in the plaintiff's trial bundles and ordered wasted costs to fall on the solicitors, subject to show cause.
Court of Appeal refused a renewed application for leave to appeal against amendment of a consent ancillary relief order, holding the proposed grounds had no reasonable prospect of success.
The court dismissed the defendant’s appeal from summary judgment on a dishonoured cheque, holding that the alleged oral condition was inadmissible and unproved.
在特定文件披露後，原告的特定披露傳票毋須聆訊；法庭判原告有權獲取該申請費用，但因律師未依實務指示提交費用清單，當日聆訊費用不予計算。
The court refused to vary a costs order nisi and held that no exceptional circumstances justified making the unsuccessful judicial review leave applicant pay costs.
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