23 Apr 2024
香港特別行政區 訴 秦錦釗
- Citation
- [2024] HKDC 568
- Court
- District Court
- Case number
- DCCC919/2015
The assessor's original determinations were correct and are upheld: costs must be reasonable and compensatory; the defendant failed to justify engagement of an additional junior silk (Tanie Toh) and her claimed fees were disallowed; $200/hr is an appropriate benchmark for assessing a self-represented defendant's hourly rate in the absence of documentary proof of higher income; the mainland legal opinions were excessive in number and partly duplicative and were capped (one opinion award and limited amount per category); payments to Yinggao Consultants were substantially reduced to a reasonable…