28 Feb 2018
LAM AND LAI SOLICITORS v. HO CHUN YAN ALBERT
- Citation
- [2018] HKCA 83
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV172/2017
The Court held the correct approach is the 'old' approach: a judge reviewing a taxing master's decision should not rehear taxation de novo but may interfere where the master erred in principle, relied on irrelevant matters or misconceived the facts; having found such errors here, the judge was entitled to act afresh but erred in outcome by simply taxing off a partner; the appropriate allowance for the 64 challenged items is one partner plus a notional junior solicitor at half the partner rate.