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Rectification of judgment before sealing
  • 13 Jan 2022

    NG CHEUK HANG v. WAMS DESIGN LTD

    Citation
    [2022] HKDC 27
    Court
    District Court
    Case number
    DCCJ171/2018

    The court allowed the defendant's application for additional judgment/corrigendum because the omissions of agreed undercharged items and a plain arithmetic error in the net balance were clerical/data errors correctable under Order 22 r11 and the court's pre-sealing jurisdiction; because the corrigendum reduced the payable quantum to HK$10,588 meaning the defendant beat the plaintiff's sanctioned offer, the plaintiff's application to vary the costs order nisi was dismissed; having regard to proportionality and mixed success, there shall be no order as to costs for the two applications (order n…