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Hong Kong Case Law

Social welfare and expert reports
  • 29 Sept 2022

    H v. W

    Citation
    [2022] HKFC 211
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC8332/2017

    The summons to expunge was dismissed: the Addendum, although not admissible as an expert report, may remain in court files as correspondence and HHJ Melloy's direction did not justify wholesale expunction; alleged contamination of expert reports goes to weight not admissibility and must be determined at trial after cross‑examination; the court lacks basis to expunge documents from Social Welfare Department files; L Reports cannot be expunged absent definitive findings from HKPS.