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Voluntary contributions to estate
  • 22 Dec 2021

    RE HO SUET HUNG

    Citation
    [2021] HKCFI 3836
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCB5205/2018

    The summons was dismissed because the Bankrupt failed to demonstrate that the Trustees' original and revised assessments of monthly living expenses were perverse or clearly wrong; although the Trustees had no proper statutory basis to require payments or to freeze the bank account without an income payments order, the Court declined to grant the relief sought because the assessments were reasonable and the Trustees undertook to unfreeze the account and ensure payment in accordance with their assessments; the Court did not decide the broader legal question whether trustees may freeze bank acco…