17 Oct 2006
PREDIWAVE CORPORATION v. NEW WORLD TMT LTD
- Citation
- PREDIWAVE CORPORATION v. NEW WORLD TMT LTD
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV292/2006
The Court of Appeal held that the Hong Kong court had jurisdiction under the Evidence Ordinance to give effect to the California letter of request; the request sought evidence for use at trial not pre-trial discovery; the relevance and admissibility of the documents are primarily matters for the US trial judge and the statements in the letter of request should be accepted except in the clearest cases; the descriptions of the documents were sufficiently particular but production should be limited to the specific HSBC account referenced in the US proceedings (account no. 4593340706838); bank co…