6 Dec 2018
CHU KAN WING v. HA PO YING the administratrix of the estate of CHU SIU WING, DECEASED
- Citation
- [2018] HKDC 1514
- Court
- District Court
- Case number
- DCMP2565/2018
The court held that the consent summons and subsequent letters did not excuse the defendant's solicitors from attending the scheduled call-over; the matter must proceed as if begun by writ with specified pleadings timetable; the solicitors' unexplained absence justified a personal indemnity cost order against them and referral to the Law Society.