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  • 21 Aug 2014

    TO PUI KUI v. NG KWOK PIU AND OTHERS

    Citation
    TO PUI KUI v. NG KWOK PIU AND OTHERS
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMP2466/2012

    Leave to appeal against the trial judge's refusal to permit amendment of the defence was refused because the refusal was a case management decision not shown to be clearly wrong, the proposed amendments were fact-sensitive and likely to disrupt trial fairness and preparation, and most amendments were irrelevant to issues in the substantive appeal; by contrast, the plaintiff was granted leave to amend her notice of appeal/respondent's notice because counsel represented that the substance of the amended grounds was already in filed skeleton submissions and respondents could deal with them witho…