11 Mar 2013
GRANT THORNTON INTERNATIONAL LTD AND OTHERS v. TANG CHUNG WAH AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- GRANT THORNTON INTERNATIONAL LTD AND OTHERS v. TANG CHUNG WAH AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCCL17/2012
The 1st Plaintiff failed to prove it was 'not familiar' with Chinese for s5(1) purposes because it did not demonstrate that none of its directors, employees or agents (including solicitors acting as its agent) were familiar with Chinese; the plaintiffs' solicitors are bilingual and act as agents, so the statutory request under s5(1)/(4) was not established and the request was not reasonable under s5(5)(a). Nonetheless, exercising the court’s case management power under s4, the court ordered the Defendants to provide an English translation of the Defence and Counterclaim and of any further Chi…