12 Jul 2001
LI HON MAN AND ANOTHER v. CRYSTAL KNITTERS LTD.
- Citation
- LI HON MAN AND ANOTHER v. CRYSTAL KNITTERS LTD.
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA9169/1998
The court confirmed the order nisi: no order as to costs between the 1st Plaintiff and the Defendant because both parties partly succeeded and partly failed on related claims and counterclaims; the payments into court did not change the outcome because they were insufficient to match adjudged sums and thus did not afford a discretion to alter costs beyond normal rules; Calderbank correspondence and the alleged pre-trial offer did not justify changing the order because as of 14 February 2001 the parties were effectively agreed save for costs and the Defendant nevertheless pursued the countercl…