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Hong Kong Case Law

Unreasonable conduct

  • 18 Mar 2025

    JET VICTORY INVESTMENT LTD v. WONG LEUNG TAT

    Citation
    [2025] HKLdT 9
    Court
    Lands Tribunal
    Case number
    LDBM238/2015

    The tribunal dismissed the respondent's application and made the costs order nisi absolute: the written settlement offer was ambiguous and not plainly more generous than the judgment once the undertaking (equivalent to the prohibitory injunction) and other terms are considered; the applicant's conduct, though criticised, did not justify varying the costs order which already took conduct into account.

  • 30 Jun 2015

    NAV v. JTMW

    Citation
    NAV v. JTMW
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC4191/2012

    The petitioner's conduct in seeking a psychologist expert at a very late stage, without prior indication and effectively as a fishing expedition to rebut the social welfare officer, was unreasonable in the conduct of litigation and justifies an adverse costs order for that part; the immigration expert claim was inadmissible on law and, although late, did not attract the same adverse costs consequence; accordingly apportionment of costs was ordered (2/3 psychologist; 1/3 immigration) and the order nisi varied to require the petitioner to bear costs as apportioned.